Measuring glacier mass changes from space—a review

E Berthier, D Floriciou, AS Gardner… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are currently losing mass
rapidly with direct and severe impacts on the habitability of some regions on Earth as glacier …

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century

R Hugonnet, R McNabb, E Berthier, B Menounos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Glaciers distinct from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are shrinking rapidly, altering
regional hydrology, raising global sea level and elevating natural hazards. Yet, owing to the …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Remote sensing of glacier and ice sheet grounding lines: A review

P Friedl, F Weiser, A Fluhrer, MH Braun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The precise positioning and long-term monitoring of the grounding line, forming the
boundary between grounded and floating ice of marine ice sheets and tidewater glaciers, is …

Continuity of the mass loss of the world's glaciers and ice caps from the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On missions

E Ciracì, I Velicogna, S Swenson - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use time series of time‐variable gravity from the Gravitational Recovery and Climate
Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow‐On (GRACE‐FO) missions to evaluate the mass …

Reconciling Svalbard glacier mass balance

TV Schuler, J Kohler, N Elagina, JOM Hagen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early
2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance …

[PDF][PDF] Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

A high‐resolution record of Greenland mass balance

M McMillan, A Leeson, A Shepherd… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We map recent Greenland Ice Sheet elevation change at high spatial (5 km) and
temporal (monthly) resolution using CryoSat‐2 altimetry. After correcting for the impact of …

Glacier mass loss between 2010 and 2020 dominated by atmospheric forcing

L Jakob, N Gourmelen - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We generate a high spatial and temporal record of ice loss across glaciers globally for the
first time from CryoSat‐2 swath interferometric radar altimetry. We show that between 2010 …

Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability

B Noël, CL Jakobs, WJJ Van Pelt, S Lhermitte… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Compared to other Arctic ice masses, Svalbard glaciers are low-elevated with flat interior
accumulation areas, resulting in a marked peak in their current hypsometry (area-elevation …