Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2969-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2969-2024
Research article
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26 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 26 Jun 2024

Mapping geodetically inferred Antarctic ice surface height changes into thickness changes: a sensitivity study

Natasha Valencic, Linda Pan, Konstantin Latychev, Natalya Gomez, Evelyn Powell, and Jerry X. Mitrovica
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We quantify the effect of ongoing Antarctic bedrock uplift due to Ice Age or modern ice mass changes on estimates of ice thickness changes obtained from satellite-based ice height measurements. We find that variations in the Ice Age signal introduce an uncertainty in estimates of total Antarctic ice change of up to ~10%. Moreover, the usual assumption that the mapping between modern ice height and thickness changes is uniform systematically underestimates net Antarctic ice volume changes.