期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 415, 期 -, 页码 134-141出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.029
关键词
climate; Antarctica; satellite measurements; time-variable gravity
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation - Antarctic Glaciology and Geophysics Programs [NSF-1245788, EAR-1014606]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1150145] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1245788] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
While multiple data sources have confirmed that Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate, different measurement techniques estimate the details of its geographically highly variable mass balance with different levels of accuracy, spatio-temporal resolution, and coverage. Some scope remains for methodological improvements using a single data type. In this study we report our progress in increasing the accuracy and spatial resolution of time-variable gravimetry from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). We determine the geographic pattern of ice mass change in Antarctica between January 2003 and June 2014, accounting for glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA) using the IJ05_R2 model. Expressing the unknown signal in a sparse Slepian basis constructed by optimization to prevent leakage out of the regions of interest, we use robust signal processing and statistical estimation methods. Applying those to the latest time series of monthly GRACE solutions we map Antarctica's mass loss in space and time as well as can be recovered from satellite gravity alone. Ignoring GIA model uncertainty, over the period 2003-2014, West Antarctica has been losing ice mass at a rate of -121 +/- 8 Gt/yr and has experienced large acceleration of ice mass losses along the Amundsen Sea coast of -18 +/- 5 Gt/yr(2), doubling the mass loss rate in the past six years. The Antarctic Peninsula shows slightly accelerating ice mass loss, with larger accelerated losses in the southern half of the Peninsula. Ice mass gains due to snowfall in Dronning Maud Land have continued to add about half the amount of West Antarctica's loss back onto the continent over the last decade. We estimate the overall mass losses from Antarctica since January 2003 at -92 +/- 10 Gt/yr. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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