On the recent contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea level change

We assess the recent contribution of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) to sea level change. We use the mass budget method, which quantifies ice sheet mass balance (MB) as the difference between surface mass balance (SMB) and solid ice discharge across the grounding line (<i>D</i>). A com...

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Main Authors: M. R. van den Broeke, E. M. Enderlin, I. M. Howat, P. Kuipers Munneke, B. P. Y. Noël, W. J. van de Berg, E. van Meijgaard, B. Wouters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-09-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/1933/2016/tc-10-1933-2016.pdf