GRACE and GRACE-FO Related Publications (no abstracts)

Sorted by DateSorted by Last Name of First Author

Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE-6G_C (VM5a) model

Peltier, W. R., Argus, D. F., and Drummond, R., 2015. Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE-6G_C (VM5a) model. Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), 120(1):450–487, doi:10.1002/2014JB011176.

Downloads

from the NASA Astrophysics Data System  • by the DOI System  •

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{2015JGRB..120..450P,
       author = {{Peltier}, W.~R. and {Argus}, D.~F. and {Drummond}, R.},
        title = "{Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE-6G\_C (VM5a) model}",
      journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)},
     keywords = {glacial isostasy, space geodesy, mantle dynamics},
         year = 2015,
        month = jan,
       volume = {120},
       number = {1},
        pages = {450-487},
     abstract = "{A new model of the last deglaciation event of the Late Quaternary ice
        age is here described and denoted as ICE-6G\_C (VM5a). It
        differs from previously published models in this sequence in
        that it has been explicitly refined by applying all of the
        available Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of
        vertical motion of the crust that may be brought to bear to
        constrain the thickness of local ice cover as well as the timing
        of its removal. Additional space geodetic constraints have also
        been applied to specify the reference frame within which the GPS
        data are described. The focus of the paper is upon the three
        main regions of Last Glacial Maximum ice cover, namely, North
        America, Northwestern Europe/Eurasia, and Antarctica, although
        Greenland and the British Isles will also be included, if
        peripherally, in the discussion. In each of the three major
        regions, the model predictions of the time rate of change of the
        gravitational field are also compared to that being measured by
        the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites as an
        independent means of verifying the improvement of the model
        achieved by applying the GPS constraints. Several aspects of the
        global characteristics of this new model are also discussed,
        including the nature of relative sea level history predictions
        at far-field locations, in particular the Caribbean island of
        Barbados, from which especially high-quality records of
        postglacial sea level change are available but which records
        were not employed in the development of the model. Although
        ICE-6G\_C (VM5a) is a significant improvement insofar as the
        most recently available GPS observations are concerned,
        comparison of model predictions with such far-field relative sea
        level histories enables us to identify a series of additional
        improvements that should follow from a further stage of model
        iteration.}",
          doi = {10.1002/2014JB011176},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015JGRB..120..450P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Generated by bib2html_grace.pl (written by Patrick Riley modified for this page by Volker Klemann) on Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:40:57

GRACE-FO

Thu Apr 10, F. Flechtner