期刊
TECTONOPHYSICS
卷 320, 期 3-4, 页码 409-418出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00042-1
关键词
analytical Earth model; geoid; glacial rebound; gravity; sea-level
A new class of analytical, multilayered, viscoelastic Earth models based on the seismic model PREM (Dziewonski and Anderson, 1981), with an incompressible, linear, viscoelastic Maxwell rheology, is applied to the modeling of global sea-level changes due to Pleistocene deglaciation. Until now, analytical schemes based on normal mode theory, have dealt with at most five layers, an elastic lithosphere, a three layered mantle including a transition zone, and a core (Spada et al., 1992; Geophys. J. Int. 109, 683-700). The novelty of our approach, used for the first time in sealevel studies, stands on an analytical scheme that can reproduce continuous elastic and rheological stratification when a sufficient number of layers is taken into account. We specifically assess the importance of our results for the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite mission. GOCE will resolve the gravity field with a spatial resolution (half-wavelength) of 75 km and amplitude of 1.5 mgal, with a uniform coverage over the Earth, including presently unsurveyed, remote areas. Our models lead to post-glacial rebound induced free air gravity anomalies of a few mgals peak-to-peak in the harmonic degree range l=80-200, which will be discernible by GOCE. This finding demonstrates that post-glacial rebound has a high frequency component in the gravity field that can in principle be resolved by high resolution gravity satellite missions. We show that post-glacial rebound can contribute a substantial fraction to present-day sea-level Variations and point out that for the Mediterranean Sea they are of the same order of magnitude as those induced by tectonic processes. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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