Tonie van Dam

TL;DR: This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com" as discussed by the authors. But it is not available in the UK.

TL;DR: In this paper, anomalies of terrestrial water storage (TWS) observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission were assimilated into the NASA Catchment land surface model in western and central Europe for a 7-year period, using a previously developed ensemble Kalman smoother.

TL;DR: The spatial pattern of accelerating mass changes reflects the geography of NAO-driven shifts in atmospheric forcing and the ice sheet’s sensitivity to that forcing, and it is inferred that southwest Greenland will become a major future contributor to sea level rise.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how GPS measurements of horizontal crustal motion can be used to augment vertical motion measurements, to improve and extend GPS studies of surface loading, and show that the ratio of the vertical displacement to the horizontal displacement, combined with the direction of the horizontal motion, can help determine whether nearby loading is concentrated in a small region (for example, in a single lake or glacier).

TL;DR: Geocenter motion is intimately related to the realization of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) origin, and, in various ways, affects many of our measurement objectives for global change monitoring as discussed by the authors.