Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review

E Berthier, D Floriciou, AS Gardner… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass
rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier …

Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers–Progress since AR5 and challenges

E Hanna, F Pattyn, F Navarro, V Favier, H Goelzer… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research shows increasing decadal ice mass losses from the Greenland and
Antarctic Ice Sheets and more generally from glaciers worldwide in the light of continued …

Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet has been a major contributor to global sea-level rise in
recent decades,, and it is expected to continue to be so. Although increases in glacier flow …

Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years

AS Gardner, G Moholdt, T Scambos, M Fahnstock… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
Ice discharge from large ice sheets plays a direct role in determining rates of sea-level rise.
We map present-day Antarctic-wide surface velocities using Landsat 7 and 8 imagery …

Trends in Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation and mass

A Shepherd, L Gilbert, AS Muir… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Fluctuations in Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation and mass occur over a variety of time
scales, owing to changes in snowfall and ice flow. Here we disentangle these signals by …

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

IN Otosaka, A Shepherd, ER Ivins… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets have accelerated since the 1990s,
accounting for a significant increase in global mean sea level. Here, we present a new 29 …

GIA model statistics for GRACE hydrology, cryosphere, and ocean science

L Caron, ER Ivins, E Larour, S Adhikari… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a new analysis of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) with the goal of assembling
the model uncertainty statistics required for rigorously extracting trends in surface mass from …

Error sources and guidelines for quality assessment of glacier area, elevation change, and velocity products derived from satellite data in the Glaciers_cci project

F Paul, T Bolch, K Briggs, A Kääb, M McMillan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Satellite data provide a large range of information on glacier dynamics and changes.
Results are often reported, provided and used without consideration of measurement …

Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet mass changes and effects on global sea level

R Forsberg, L Sørensen, S Simonsen - Integrative Study of the Mean Sea …, 2017 - Springer
Thirteen years of GRACE data provide an excellent picture of the current mass changes of
Greenland and Antarctica, with mass loss in the GRACE period 2002–2015 amounting to …

Greenland mass trends from airborne and satellite altimetry during 2011–2020

SA Khan, JL Bamber, E Rignot, V Helm… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We use satellite and airborne altimetry to estimate annual mass changes of the Greenland
Ice Sheet. We estimate ice loss corresponding to a sea‐level rise of 6.9±0.4 mm from April …