Physical applications of GPS geodesy: A review

Y Bock, D Melgar - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

Greenland ice sheet mass balance: a review

SA Khan, A Aschwanden, AA Bjørk… - Reports on progress …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past quarter of a century the Arctic has warmed more than any other region on
Earth, causing a profound impact on the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) and its contribution to …

Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes

B Smith, HA Fricker, AS Gardner, B Medley, J Nilsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Quantifying changes in Earth's ice sheets and identifying the climate drivers are central to
improving sea level projections. We provide unified estimates of grounded and floating ice …

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

JM Van Wessem, WJ Van De Berg, BPY Noël… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance
(SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional …

Elevation and elevation change of Greenland and Antarctica derived from CryoSat-2

V Helm, A Humbert, H Miller - The Cryosphere, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
This study focuses on the present-day surface elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets. Based on 3 years of CryoSat-2 data acquisition we derived new elevation models …

The Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) land classification and surface elevation data sets

IM Howat, A Negrete, BE Smith - The Cryosphere, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
As part of the Greenland Ice Mapping Project (GIMP) we have produced three geospatial
data sets for the entire ice sheet and periphery. These are (1) a complete, 15 m resolution …

Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model

JM Van Wessem, CH Reijmer, M Morlighem… - Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
This study evaluates the impact of a recent upgrade in the physics package of the regional
atmospheric climate model RACMO2 on the simulated surface mass balance (SMB) of the …

Dynamic thinning of glaciers on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula

B Wouters, A Martin-Español, V Helm, T Flament… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Growing evidence has demonstrated the importance of ice shelf buttressing on the inland
grounded ice, especially if it is resting on bedrock below sea level. Much of the Southern …

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 …

Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses

HJ Zwally, J Li, JW Robbins, JL Saba, D Yi… - Journal of …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Mass changes of the Antarctic ice sheet impact sea-level rise as climate changes, but recent
rates have been uncertain. Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003–08) …