Sentences with phrase «assessing ice sheet mass»

Going forwards, IMBIE provides a framework for assessing ice sheet mass balance, and has an explicit aim to widen participation to enable the entire scientific community to become involved.

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To assess these implications, we translate global into local SLR projections using a model of spatial variation in sea - level contributions caused by isostatic deformation and changes in gravity as the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lose mass (36 ⇓ — 38), represented as two global 0.5 ° matrices of scalar adjustment factors to the ice sheets» respective median global contributions to SLR and (squared) to their variances.

For example, Martín - Español et al. (2017) find that the total mass trend for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was a gain of +57 Gt per year during 2003 - 2013, which is 4 times the rate of gain assessed for 1992 - 2011.

Great progress has been made recently in assessing the current rate of mass loss from the ice sheets (Shepherd et al., 2012), as well as monitoring the changing snowfall, surface melting, and temperature contributing to the changes.

In 2007, Denmark launched the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance of the ice sheIce Sheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance of the ice sSheet (PROMICE) to assess changes in the mass balance of the ice sheice sheetsheet.

We need to quantify and understand these feedbacks so that we can assess the energy budget at the ice sheet surface and predict future changes in ice mass.