Greenland ice sheet mass balance assessed by PROMICE (1995–2015)

William Colgan, Kenneth Mankoff, Kristian Kjeldsen, Anders Anker Bjørk, Jason Box, Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen, Louise Sørensen, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Anne M. Solgaard, Rene Forsberg, Henriette Skourup, Lars Stenseng, Steen Kristensen, Sine Munk Hvidegaard, Michele Citterio, Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson, Xavier Fettweis, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Signe Andersen, Dirk Van AsRobert Fausto

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    Abstract

    The Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) has measured ice-sheet elevation and thickness via repeat airborne surveys circumscribing the ice sheet at an average elevation of 1708 ± 5 m (Sørensen et al. 2018). We refer to this 5415 km survey as the ‘PROMICE perimeter’ (Fig. 1). Here, we assess ice-sheet mass balance following the input- output approach of Andersen et al. (2015). We estimate ice-sheet output, or the ice discharge across the ice-sheet grounding line, by applying downstream corrections to the ice flux across the PROMICE perimeter. We subtract this ice discharge from ice-sheet input, or the area-integrated, ice sheet surface mass balance, estimated by a regional climate model. While Andersen et al. (2015) assessed ice-sheet mass balance in 2007 and 2011, this updated input-output assessment now estimates the annual sea-level rise contribution from eighteen sub-sectors of the Greenland ice sheet over the 1995–2015 period.

    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Artikelnummere2019430201
    TidsskriftGeological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin
    Vol/bind43
    Antal sider6
    ISSN1604-8156
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - jul. 2019

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