Mass_changes_of_the_Greenland_Ice_Sheet_between_2002_and_2019.webp


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English: "Time series of mass change from the GRACE and GRACE-FO missions (black, with 2-σ error bars) and simulations using the regional climate models MARv3.1030 (A; light violet) and RACMO2.3p231 (B; dark violet) and calibrated outflow measurements from feature tracking of optical and radar imagery (SMB-D*), updated from32 (“Methods” section). The top bar indicates the availability of GRACE and GRACE-FO measurements, the vertical dashed lines frame the data gap between both missions. The blue shading covers the biennial period 2017–2018, which contains the GRACE/GRACE-FO data gap (dotted line). The monthly SMB-D* data shown for MARv3.10 (A*; dark blue) are linearly interpolated to match the GRACE/GRACE-FO measurement timeframes. Both datasets are fitted with a biennial piecewise linear trend (breakpoints on January 1st of each year), revealing accelerated mass losses until 2012, followed by a slowdown and particularly small loss during the years 2017 and 2018. Values denote biennial mass balances in Gt year−1."
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Source https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0010-1#Fig1
Author Authors of the study: Ingo Sasgen, Bert Wouters, Alex S. Gardner, Michalea D. King, Marco Tedesco, Felix W. Landerer, Christoph Dahle, Himanshu Save & Xavier Fettweis

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Time series of mass change from the GRACE and GRACE-FO missions and simulations using the regional climate models MARv3.1030 and RACMO2.3p231 and calibrated outflow measurements from feature tracking of optical and radar imagery

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20 August 2020