Growth of Greenland Ice Sheet: Measurement
- 22 December 1989
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 246 (4937), 1587-1589
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.246.4937.1587
Abstract
Measurements of ice-sheet elevation change by satellite altimetry show that the Greenland surface elevation south of 72° north latitude is increasing. The vertical velocity of the surface is 0.20 ± 0.06 meters per year from measured changes in surface elevations at 5906 intersections between Geosat paths in 1985 and Seasat in 1978, and 0.28 ± 0.02 meters per year from 256,694 intersections of Geosat paths during a 548-day period of 1985 to 1986.Keywords
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