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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 111, 期 52, 页码 18478-18483出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411680112
关键词
Greenland Ice Sheet; laser altimetry; mass balance; ice dynamics
资金
- NASA's Polar Program [NNX10AV13G, NNX11AR23G, NNX12AH15G]
- Netherlands Polar Program of Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Division for the Earth and Life Sciences (NWO-ALW)
- EU FP7 program ice2sea
- NASA [NNX10AV13G, 121957, NNX11AR23G, 137547, NNX12AH15G, 19697] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We present a new record of ice thickness change, reconstructed at nearly 100,000 sites on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) from laser altimetry measurements spanning the period 1993-2012, partitioned into changes due to surface mass balance (SMB) and ice dynamics. We estimate a mean annual GrIS mass loss of 243 +/- 18 Gt.y(-1), equivalent to 0.68 mm.y(-1) sea level rise (SLR) for 2003-2009. Dynamic thinning contributed 48%, with the largest rates occurring in 2004-2006, followed by a gradual decrease balanced by accelerating SMB loss. The spatial pattern of dynamic mass loss changed over this time as dynamic thinning rapidly decreased in southeast Greenland but slowly increased in the southwest, north, and northeast regions. Most outlet glaciers have been thinning during the last two decades, interrupted by episodes of decreasing thinning or even thickening. Dynamics of the major outlet glaciers dominated the mass loss from larger drainage basins, and simultaneous changes over distances up to 500 km are detected, indicating climate control. However, the intricate spatiotemporal pattern of dynamic thickness change suggests that, regardless of the forcing responsible for initial glacier acceleration and thinning, the response of individual glaciers is modulated by local conditions. Recent projections of dynamic contributions from the entire GrIS to SLR have been based on the extrapolation of four major outlet glaciers. Considering the observed complexity, we question how well these four glaciers represent all of Greenland's outlet glaciers.
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