Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE

By Isabella Velicogna. 2009

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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High‐resolution CSR GRACE RL05 mascons (2016, methodology): “…from GRACE have significantly improved our understanding of the Earth’s system including the ground water distribution, polar ice, and ocean dynamics [Chambers, 2006; Rodell et al., 2004; Velicogna, 2009; Famiglietti et al., 2011; Long et al., 2013; Scanlon et al., 2015; Luthcke et al., 2013].”
Sea level: A review of present-day and recent-past changes and variability (2012, background): “Most recent mass balance estimates from space-based observations unambiguously show ice mass loss acceleration in the recent years (e.g. Chen et al., 2009; Velicogna, 2009; Rignot et al., 2008a, b, 2011).”
Improved methods for observing Earth's time variable mass distribution with GRACE using spherical cap mascons (2015, methodology): “The trends from land ice melting [Velicogna, 2009; Schrama and Wouters, 2011] and groundwater depletion [Famiglietti et al., 2011; Rodell et al., 2009; Tiwari et al., 2009] are of particular interest, as these signals are primarily associated with both natural and anthropogenic secular change.”
Ensemble prediction and intercomparison analysis of GRACE time‐variable gravity field models (2014, positive): “Ever smaller signals are being identified and studied from the GRACE data with applications in hydrology [Ramillien et al., 2008], oceanography [Han et al., 2010], and cryosphere [Velicogna, 2009], among others.”
Subaqueous melting of Store Glacier, west Greenland from three‐dimensional, high‐resolution numerical modeling and ocean observations (2013, background): “[2] Mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has increased rapidly in the past decades [Velicogna, 2009] due to a combination of enhanced surface melting and accelerated ice discharge into the ocean [Rignot and Kanagaratnam, 2006; van den Broeke et al.”
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change (2011, background): “Vermeer and Rahmstorf (2009) extended Rahmstorf’s semiempirical approach by adding a rapid response term, projecting sea level rise by 2100 of 0.75–1.9 m for the full range of IPCC climate scenarios.”
The solid Earth’s influence on sea level (2013, background): “…that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and mountain glaciers, are currently losing water to the oceans at rates of ~222, 165, and 151 Gt/yr, respectively, which together corresponds to an average eustatic sea-level rise of 1.48 mm/yr (Jacob et al., 2012; Rignot et al., 2011; Velicogna, 2009).”
State of the climate in 2010 (2011, methodology): “GRACE enables scientists to generate monthly time series of Greenland and Antarctic ice mass, which have confirmed the shrinking of the polar ice sheets, one of the most obvious and indisputable manifestations of climate change (e.g., Velicogna and Wahr 2006a, 2006b).”
Deceleration in the Earth's oblateness (2013, background): “The meltwater from the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets results in _JRSL2 of +0.17 10 11/yr, while the direct effect of the ice mass loss, _J ice2 , is calculated to be +3.9 10 11/yr, assuming a uniform distribution of ice loss over the Greenland and West Antarctica areas used in the study of Wu ”
Quantifying and reducing leakage errors in the JPL RL05M GRACE mascon solution (2016, background): “Additionally, over Greenland and Antarctica, we add the ice component of the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth System Model (ESMice) [Dobslaw et al., 2015], which uses two configurations of the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO) [Ettema et al., 2009] to model surface mass balance processes w”
Earth's energy imbalance and implications (2011, methodology): “A recent analysis (Rignot et al., 2011), comparing surface mass budget studies and the gravity method, supports the high estimates of Velicogna (2009).”
Computations of the viscoelastic response of a 3-D compressible Earth to surface loading: an application to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Antarctica and Canada (2012, methodology): “The harmonic coefficients are processed using the same spatial averaging technique used by Velicogna & Wahr (2006) to determine Antarctic mass loss from GRACE data.”
The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era (2017, background): “Second, several studies have identified an acceleration in mass loss over the ice sheet for various epochs ending by, or before, 2012 (Rignot et al 2011, Velicogna 2009).”
Regional acceleration in ice mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica using GRACE time‐variable gravity data (2014, background): “More recently, attempts have been made to estimate the changes in mass balance with time or acceleration, d2M∕dt2, in Greenland and Antarctica at the continental scale [Velicogna, 2009; Rignot et al., 2011; Wouters et al., 2013; Svendsen et al., 2013; Williams et al., 2014].”