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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 48, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL095141
关键词
Swarm; GRACE; GRACE-FO; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; ENSO; PSA; ice mass balance
资金
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA19070302]
- National Key Research & Development Program of China [2017YFA0603103]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [41974040]
- European Space Agency [SW-CO-DTU-GS-111, SW-CN-DTU-GS-027, 4000109587/13/I-NB]
- MSMT Czech Republic [LTT18011]
GRACE observations showed a sudden halt in rapid mass loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in 2015, followed by a lower rate until 2017. Swarm gravimetry data efficiently filled the gap in GRACE observations and revealed the return of rapid mass loss in WAIS during the GRACE intermission. Changes in precipitation patterns driven by climate cycles further explain the dramatic shifts in mass loss regime observed by Swarm.
GRACE observations revealed that rapid mass loss in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) abruptly paused in 2015, followed by a much lower rate of mass loss (21.3 +/- 5.7 $21.3\pm 5.7$ Gt yr(-1)) until the decommissioning of GRACE in 2017. The critical 1-year GRACE intermission data gap raises the question of whether the reduced mass loss rate persists. The Swarm gravimetry data, which have a lower resolution, show good agreement with GRACE/GRACE-FO observations during the overlapping period, i.e., high correlation (0.78) and consistent trend estimates. Swarm data efficiently bridge the GRACE/GRACE-FO data gap and reveal that WAIS has returned to the rapid mass loss state (161.5 +/- 48.4 $161.5\pm 48.4$ Gt yr(-1)) that prevailed prior to 2015 during the GRACE intermission data gap. The changes in precipitation patterns, driven by the climate cycles, further explain and confirm the dramatic shifts in the WAIS mass loss regime implied by the Swarm observations.
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