Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change

BD Tapley, MM Watkins, F Flechtner, C Reigber… - Nature climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Time-resolved satellite gravimetry has revolutionized understanding of mass transport in the
Earth system. Since 2002, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has …

Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017

Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet is an important indicator of climate change and driver of sea-
level rise. Here we combine satellite observations of its changing volume, flow and …

High‐resolution CSR GRACE RL05 mascons

H Save, S Bettadpur, BD Tapley - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The determination of the gravity model for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
(GRACE) is susceptible to modeling errors, measurement noise, and observability issues …

Improved methods for observing Earth's time variable mass distribution with GRACE using spherical cap mascons

MM Watkins, DN Wiese, DN Yuan… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss several classes of improvements to gravity solutions from the Gravity Recovery
and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. These include both improvements in …

Global sea-level budget 1993-present

A Cazenave, B Meyssignac, M Ablain, M Balmaseda… - 2018 - figshare.utas.edu.au
Global mean sea level is an integral of changes occurring in the climate system in response
to unforced climate variability as well as natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. Its …

Regional acceleration in ice mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica using GRACE time‐variable gravity data

I Velicogna, TC Sutterley… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We use Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) monthly gravity fields
to determine the regional acceleration in ice mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica for 2003 …

Glacial isostatic adjustment modelling: historical perspectives, recent advances, and future directions

PL Whitehouse - Earth surface dynamics, 2018 - esurf.copernicus.org
Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) describes the response of the solid Earth, the gravitational
field, and the oceans to the growth and decay of the global ice sheets. A commonly studied …

A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology

JT Reager, AS Gardner, JS Famiglietti, DN Wiese… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Climate-driven changes in land water storage and their contributions to sea level rise have
been absent from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sea level budgets owing to …

GRACE, time-varying gravity, Earth system dynamics and climate change

B Wouters, JA Bonin, DP Chambers… - Reports on Progress …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Continuous observations of temporal variations in the Earth's gravity field have recently
become available at an unprecedented resolution of a few hundreds of kilometers. The …