冰川均衡调整对南极冰质量平衡监测的影响及其不确定性

本文研究了新的全球冰川均衡调整(GIA)模型对南极冰盖质量平衡监测的影响,考虑现有冰川负荷模型和地幔黏滞度模型的差异,完整评估了结果的不确定性,最后结合GRACE和卫星测高的结果进行了对比分析.结果表明,GIA对GRACE监测的等效水柱变化有重大影响,较大的GIA影响出现在西南极,沿罗斯冰架-卡姆布冰流-罗尼冰架-南极...

Effects of glacial isostatic adjustment on the estimate of ice mass balance over Antarctica and the uncertainties

The effects of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) on monitoring ice mass balance over Antarctica are investigated using our newly-released GIA model ICE-4G+RF3L20(β=0.4) and the uncertainties are evaluated by considering the effects of differences in ice load models and reference mantle viscosities. The results and the comparison with those from GRACE time-varying gravity fields and satellite altimetry data are shown as follows. It is found that the GIA has strong effects on monitoring the changes of equivalent water height (EWH) from GRACE gravity data, significant GIA effects occur at Ross Ice Shelf, Kamb Ice Stream, Ronne Ice Shelf and Antarctic Peninsula with a maximal magnitude of ~29.8 mm/a at Kamb Ice Stream. For the whole Antarctica, the effect of GIA on total ice mass balance is 134±28 Gt/a. The differences in ice models account for 88.4% of the variances of uncertainties while the differences in viscosity models contribute 11.6%. In some typical regions, the changes of EWH monitored by GRACE data are given before and after GIA corrections. These are ~32.8 mm/a and ~6.3 mm/a for Kamb Ice Stream, ~-95.3 mm/a and ~-102.5 mm/a for Amundsen Sea Embayment, ~13.6 mm/a and ~8.1 mm/a for Enderby Land. The total ice mass change of the whole Antarctica is found to be -82±29 Gt/a after GIA corrections which is quite close to that estimated from satellite altimetry data. Furthermore, the effects of GIA on the ice height changes observed from ICESat are less than 8%. The results related to our new GIA model in this paper can be utilized to precisely monitor the present ice mass balance in Antarctica from space geodetic techniques.