Full Record - Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992-2018

Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992-2018

GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01298

Abstract:
This dataset consists of the time series of mass change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea level between 1980 and 2018 derived from satellite measurements. The dataset presented here is a reconciled estimate of mass balance estimates from three independent satellite-based techniques - gravimetry, altimetry and input-output method - and its associated uncertainty. This dataset is part of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE). The total mass change as well as the partition between surface and dynamics mass balance are provided in this dataset.

This work is an outcome of the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) supported by the ESA Climate Change Initiative and the NASA Cryosphere Program. Andrew Shepherd was additionally supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the UK Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (cpom30001).

***** PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE UPDATED DATA *****

The expanded data set (see 'Related Data Set Metadata' link below) has an additional 24 months of measurements, and also includes data for Antarctica.

Citation:
Pattle, M., Moyano, G., Slater, T., Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E., Smith, B., van den Broeke, M., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P., Briggs, K., Joughin, I., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Scambos, T., Schlegel, N., Geruo, A., Agosta, C., ... Wuite, J. (2020). Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992-2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/8d5ff221-a470-4cc1-b7c4-cbdf383554fc

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License

Use:	This data is supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.

Authors

Name	UK PDC
Role(s)	Metadata Author
Organisation	British Antarctic Survey

Name	Mark E Pattle
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	isardSAT

Name	Gorka Moyano
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	isardSAT

Name	Thomas Slater
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Leeds

Name	Andrew Shepherd
Role(s)	Investigator, Technical Contact
Organisation	University of Leeds

Name	Erik Ivins
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Eric Rignot
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of California

Name	Ben Smith
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Washington

Name	Michiel R van den Broeke
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Utrecht University

Name	Isabella Velicogna
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of California

Name	Pippa Whitehouse
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Durham University

Name	Kate Briggs
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Leeds

Name	Ian Joughin
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Washington

Name	Gerhard Krinner
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Université Grenoble Alpes

Name	Sophie Nowicki
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name	Antony Payne
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Bristol

Name	Ted Scambos
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Colorado

Name	Nicole Schlegel
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Geruo A
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of California

Name	Cécile Agosta
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Liège

Name	Andreas Ahlstrøm
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Name	Greg Babonis
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	State University of New York at Buffalo

Name	Valentina R Barletta
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University of Denmark

Name	Anders A Bjørk
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Copenhagen

Name	Alejandro Blazquez
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Université de Toulouse

Name	Jennifer Bonin
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of South Florida

Name	William Colgan
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Name	Beata Csatho
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	State University of New York at Buffalo

Name	Richard Cullather
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name	Marcus E Engdahl
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	ESA-ESRIN

Name	Denis Felikson
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name	Xavier Fettweis
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Liège

Name	René Forsberg
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University of Denmark

Name	Anna E Hogg
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Leeds

Name	Hubert Gallee
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Université Grenoble Alpes

Name	Alex Gardner
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Lin Gilbert
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University College London

Name	Noel Gourmelen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Edinburgh

Name	Andreas Groh
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technische Universität Dresden

Name	Brian Gunter
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Georgia Institute of Technology

Name	Edward Hanna
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Lincoln

Name	Christopher Harig
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Arizona

Name	Veit Helm
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Alfred Wegener Institute

Name	Alexander Horvath
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University Munich

Name	Martin Horwath
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technische Universität Dresden

Name	Shfaqat Khan
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University of Denmark

Name	Kristian K Kjeldsen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Name	Hannes Konrad
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Deutscher Wetterdienst

Name	Peter L Langen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Danish Meteorological Institute

Name	Benoit Lecavalier
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Memorial University of Newfoundland

Name	Bryant Loomis
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name	Scott Luthcke
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Name	Malcolm McMillan
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Lancaster

Name	Daniele Melini
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

Name	Sebastian Mernild
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Bergen

Name	Yara Mohajerani
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of California

Name	Philip Moore
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Newcastle University

Name	Ruth Mottram
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Danish Meteorological Institute

Name	Jeremie Mouginot
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Univeristy of California

Name	Alan Muir
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University College London

Name	Thomas Nagler
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	ENVEO

Name	Grace Nield
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Durham University

Name	Johan Nilsson
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Brice Noël
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Utrecht University

Name	Inès Otosaka
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Leeds

Name	W R Peltier
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Toronto

Name	Nadège Pie
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Texas

Name	Roelof Rietbroek
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Bonn

Name	Helmut Rott
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	ENVEO

Name	Louise Sandberg Sørensen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University of Denmark

Name	Ingo Sasgen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Alfred Wegener Institute

Name	Himanshu Save
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Texas

Name	Bernd Scheuchl
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of California

Name	Ernst Schrama
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Delft University of Technology

Name	Ludwig Schröder
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technische Universität Dresden

Name	Ki-Weon Seo
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Seoul National University

Name	Sebastian B Simonsen
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Technical University of Denmark

Name	Giorgio Spada
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Università di Urbino Carlo Bo

Name	Tyler Sutterley
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Matthieu Talpe
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	Lev Tarasov
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Memorial University of Newfoundland

Name	Willem Jan van de Berg
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Utrecht University

Name	Wouter van der Wal
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Delft University of Technology

Name	Melchior van Wessem
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Utrecht University

Name	Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Stuttgart

Name	David Wiese
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Name	David Wilton
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	University of Sheffield

Name	Thomas Wagner
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	NASA Headquarters

Name	Bert Wouters
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	Utrecht University

Name	Jan Wuite
Role(s)	Investigator
Organisation	ENVEO

Basic Information

Creation Date:	2020-02-03
Dataset Progress:	Complete
Dataset Language:	English
ISO Topic Categories:	Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere Environment Geoscientific Information
Parameters:	Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance Hydrosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets Oceans > Coastal Processes > Sea Level Rise

Additional Information

Reference:	Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E. et al. Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1855-2
Quality:	The surface mass balance component is provided since 1980 and is derived from regional climate models. The total mass change and the dynamics component start in 1992, when satellites began to acquire data.
Lineage/Methodology:	The data used to produce this reconciled mass balance estimate were gathered in the framework of the IMBIE project. In total, 26 independent satellite estimates of mass change were used to produce this final dataset. All the individual datasets and models used as well as the methodology to aggregate these into a final estimate are described in Shepherd et al (2019). Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Rignot, E. et al. Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018. Nature (2019) doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1855-2

Extent

Temporal Coverage:
Start Date	1980-01-01
End Date	2018-12-31

Spatial Coverage:
Latitude
Southernmost	60
Northernmost	90
Longitude
Westernmost	-80
Easternmost	10
Altitude
Min Altitude	N/A
Max Altitude	N/A
Depth
Min Depth	N/A
Max Depth	N/A

Location:
Location	Arctic
Detailed Location	Greenland

Instrumentation

Data Collection:	Each dataset contributed to the IMBIE project was processed independently by their contributors and the methods and errors on their dataset have been documented in an international peer-reviewed journal. A dedicated processor was developed in Python to compute the reconciled mass balance estimate and its uncertainty, and the core code is freely available at https://github.com/IMBIE.

Storage

Distribution:
Distribution Media	Online Internet (HTTP)
Distribution Size	50.5 kB
Distribution Format	ASCII
Fees	N/A

Data Storage:	The data are provided in two CSV files. The first file "imbie_greenland_2020_01_30_TS_Gt.csv" is the mass balance of Greenland and the second file "imbie_greenland_2020_01_30_TS_mm.csv" is the same data but converted to an equivalent sea level contribution by assuming that 360 Gt of ice is equivalent to 1 mm sea level rise. The files contain the following variables: - Mass balance (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Mass balance uncertainty (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Cumulative mass balance (Gt or mm) - Cumulative mass balance uncertainty (Gt or mm) - Surface mass balance anomaly (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Surface mass balance anomaly uncertainty (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Cumulative surface mass balance anomaly (Gt or mm) - Cumulative surface mass balance anomaly uncertainty (Gt or mm) - Dynamics mass balance anomaly (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Dynamics mass balance anomaly uncertainty (Gt/yr or mm/yr) - Cumulative dynamics mass balance anomaly (Gt or mm) - Cumulative dynamics mass balance anomaly uncertainty (Gt or mm)