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Present‐day vertical land motion of Australia from GPS observations and geophysical models
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Riddell, AR and King, MA and Watson, CS, Present‐day vertical land motion of Australia from GPS observations and geophysical models, JGR Solid Earth, 125, (2) Article e2019JB018034. ISSN 2169-9313 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
The secular rate of Australia's vertical surface deformation due to past ice‐ocean loading changes is not consistent with present vertical velocities observed by a previously sparse network of Global Positioning System (GPS) sites. Current understanding of the Earth's rheology suggests that the expected vertical motion of the crust should be close to zero given that Australia is located in the far field of past ice sheet loading. Recent GPS measurements suggest that the vertical motion of the Australian continent at permanent sites is between 0 and −2 mm/year. Here we investigate if vertical deformation due to previous ice sheet loading can be recovered in the time series of Australian GPS sites through enlarging the number of sites compared to previous studies from ~20 to more than 100 and through the application of improved data filtering. We apply forward geophysical models of elastic surface displacement induced by atmospheric, hydrologic, nontidal ocean, and ice loading and use independent component analysis as a spatiotemporal filter that includes multivariate regression to consider temporally correlated noise in GPS. Using this approach, the common mode error is identified, and subsequent multivariate regression leads to an average reduction in trend uncertainty of ~35%. The average vertical subsidence of the Australian continent is substantially different to vertical motion predicted by glacial isostatic adjustment and surface mass transport models.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | GPS, vertical land motion, Australia, glacial isostatic adjustment |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Geophysics |
| Research Field: | Geodesy |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Riddell, AR (Ms Anna Riddell) |
| UTAS Author: | King, MA (Professor Matt King) |
| UTAS Author: | Watson, CS (Dr Christopher Watson) |
| ID Code: | 137483 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Spatial Science |
| Deposited On: | 2020-02-17 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-07-05 |
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