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Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1971-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1971-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
Research article
 | 
15 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 15 Nov 2019

The imprints of contemporary mass redistribution on local sea level and vertical land motion observations

Thomas Frederikse, Felix W. Landerer, and Lambert Caron

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1971-2019-supplement

Data sets

The imprints of contemporary mass redistribution on regional sea level and vertical land motion observations T. Frederikse, L. Caron, and F. Landerer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3485577

Model code and software

Fast Error Analysis of Continuous GNSS Observations with Missing Data (http://segal.ubi.pt/hector/) M. S. Bos, R. M. S. Fernandes, S. D. P. Williams, and L. Bastos https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-012-0605-0

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Short summary
Due to ice sheets and glaciers losing mass, and because continents get wetter and drier, a lot of water is redistributed over the Earth's surface. The Earth is not completely rigid but deforms under these changes in the load on top. This deformation affects sea-level observations. With the GRACE satellite mission, we can measure this redistribution of water, and we compute the resulting deformation. We use this computed deformation to improve the accuracy of sea-level observations.
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