DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85047647245
论文题名: 25 years of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from ERS, Envisat, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry
作者: Sandberg Sørensen L. ; Simonsen S.B. ; Forsberg R. ; Khvorostovsky K. ; Meister R. ; Engdahl M.E.
刊名: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
ISSN: 0012821X
出版年: 2018
卷: 495 起始页码: 234
结束页码: 241
语种: 英语
英文关键词: elevation change
; essential climate variable
; Greenland Ice Sheet
; radar altimetry
Scopus关键词: Geodetic satellites
; Glaciers
; Ice
; Radar measurement
; Synthetic aperture radar
; Time series
; Climate variables
; elevation change
; Greenland Ice Sheet
; Long time series
; Monitoring change
; Radar altimetry
; Satellite radar altimetry
; Scientific values
; Climate change
英文摘要: The shape of the large ice sheets responds rapidly to climate change, making the elevation changes of these ice-covered regions an essential climate variable. Consistent, long time series of these elevation changes are of great scientific value. Here, we present a newly-developed data product of 25 years of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet, derived from satellite radar altimetry. The data product is made publicly available within the Greenland Ice Sheets project as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme. Analyzing repeated elevation measurements from radar altimetry is widely used for monitoring changes of ice-covered regions. The Greenland Ice Sheet has been mapped by conventional radar altimetry since the launch of ERS-1 in 1991, which was followed by ERS-2, Envisat and currently CryoSat-2. The recently launched Sentinel-3A will provide a continuation of the radar altimetry time series. Since 2010, CryoSat-2 has for the first time measured the changes in the coastal regions of the ice sheet with radar altimetry, with its novel SAR Interferometric (SARIn) mode, which provides improved measurement over regions with steep slopes. Here, we apply a mission-specific combination of cross-over, along-track and plane-fit elevation change algorithms to radar data from the ERS-1, ERS-2, Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar missions, resulting in 25 years of nearly continuous elevation change estimates (1992–2016) of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This analysis has been made possible through the recent reprocessing in the REAPER project, of data from the ERS-1 and ERS-2 radar missions, making them consistent with Envisat data. The 25 years of elevation changes are evaluated as 5-year running means, shifted almost continuously by one year. A clear acceleration in thinning is evident in the 5-year maps of elevation following 2003, while only small elevation changes observed in the maps from the 1990s. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/109819
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: National Space Institute, DTU Space, Geodynamics Department, Denmark; Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway; ESA-ESRIN, EO Science, Applications and Climate Department, Italy; Satellite Oceanography Laboratory, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Recommended Citation:
Sandberg Sørensen L.,Simonsen S.B.,Forsberg R.,et al. 25 years of elevation changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet from ERS, Envisat, and CryoSat-2 radar altimetry[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2018-01-01,495