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In this work we assess the most recent estimates of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) for Antarctica, including those from both forward and inverse methods. The assessment is based on a comparison of the estimated uplift rates with a set of elastic-corrected GPS vertical velocities. These have been observed from an extensive GPS network and computed using data over the period 2009-2014. We find systematic underestimations of the observed uplift rates in both inverse and forward methods over specific regions of Antarctica characterized by low mantle viscosities and thin lithosphere, such as the northern Antarctic Peninsula and the Amundsen Sea Embayment, where its recent ice discharge history is likely to be playing a role in current GIA. Uplift estimates for regions where many GIA models have traditionally placed their uplift maxima, such as the margins of Filchner-Ronne and Ross ice shelves, are found to be overestimated. GIA estimates show large variability over the interior of East Antarctica which results in increased uncertainties on the ice-sheet mass balance derived from gravimetry methods.
Author(s): Martín-Español A, King MA, Zammit-Mangion A, Andrews SB, Moore P, Bamber JL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Year: 2016
Volume: 121
Issue: 9
Pages: 6947-6965
Print publication date: 01/09/2016
Online publication date: 16/09/2016
Acceptance date: 08/09/2016
Date deposited: 07/12/2016
ISSN (print): 2169-9313
ISSN (electronic): 2169-9356
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013154
DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013154
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