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GRACE constraints on Earth rheology of the Barents Sea and Fennoscandia
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, Building 62 Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, the Netherlands
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems EDS, and Utrecht University, P.O. Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Wouter van der Wal
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, Building 62 Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, the Netherlands
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Valentina R. Barletta
National Space Institute, DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej Bygning 327, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Bart C. Root
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, Building 62 Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, the Netherlands
Louise Sandberg Sørensen
National Space Institute, DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej Bygning 327, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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In this paper, we compare the regional mass changes of the Greenland ice sheet between the solutions based on GRACE data and input/output method. Differences are found in some regions and indicate errors in those solutions. Therefore we improve our GRACE and IOM solutions by applying a simulation. We show the improved regional mass changes approximations are more consistent in regions. The remaining difference in the northwester Greenland is due to the underestimated uncertainty in IOM solution.
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The aim of this study is to determine and quantify the impact of different regionalization schemes on surface elevation changes, and how they affect the estimated spread in mass balance of Arctic ice caps and glaciers. The study found that the choice of regionalization has an important effect in regions with maritime climate and high variability in elevation change. In these areas the spread in mass balance was in many cases larger than the estimated errors of the individual methods.
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Short summary
The Barents Sea and Fennoscandia were home to large ice sheets around 20 000 years ago. After the melting of these ice sheets, the land slowly rebounded. The rebound speed is determined by the viscosity of the deep Earth. The rebound is ongoing and causes small changes in the Earth’s gravity field, which can be measured by the GRACE satellite mission. We use these measurements to obtain the viscosity of the upper mantle and find that it is 2 times higher in Fennoscandia than in the Barents Sea.
The Barents Sea and Fennoscandia were home to large ice sheets around 20 000 years ago. After...
