TY - JOUR
T1 - Greenland ice sheet mass balance assessed by PROMICE (1995-2015)
AU - Colgan, William
AU - Mankoff, Kenneth D.
AU - Kjeldsen, Kristian K.
AU - Bjørk, Anders A.
AU - Box, Jason E.
AU - Simonsen, Sebastian B.
AU - Sørensen, Louise S.
AU - Khan, S. Abbas
AU - Solgaard, Anne M.
AU - Forsberg, Rene
AU - Skourup, Henriette
AU - Stenseng, Lars
AU - Kristensen, Steen S.
AU - Hvidegaard, Sine M.
AU - Citterio, Michele
AU - Karlsson, Nanna
AU - Fettweis, Xavier
AU - Ahlstrøm, Andreas P.
AU - Andersen, Signe B.
AU - van As, Dirk
AU - Fausto, Robert S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is a product of the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (www.PROMICE.dk), which is funded by the Danish Cooperation for Environment in the Arctic (DANCEA) through the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities. We thank the reviewers, Rachel Carr and Ellyn Enderlin, for their comments, which improved the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, GEUS - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85071306593
U2 - 10.34194/GEUSB-201943-02-01
DO - 10.34194/GEUSB-201943-02-01
M3 - Article
VL - 43
JO - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
JF - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin
M1 - e2019430201
ER -
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