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Ground deformation and gravity variations modelled from present-day ice thinning in the vicinity of glaciers
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Memin, A and Rogister, Y and Hinderer, J and Llubes, M and Berthier, E and Boy, J-P, Ground deformation and gravity variations modelled from present-day ice thinning in the vicinity of glaciers, Journal of Geodynamics, 48, (3-5) pp. 195-203. ISSN 0264-3707 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2009 Elsevier
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jog.2009.09.006
Abstract
The solid Earth deforms because of post-glacial rebound due to the viscous relaxation following the last deglaciation but also because of present-day elastic deformation induced by ice thinning. In this paper, we compute elastic loading Green’s function associated to the tilt of the ground in the vicinity of glaciers using a Love number formalism for a stratified non-rotating spherical Earth model. We compare this global approach with the plane approximation in terms of height, gravity and tilt changes as a function of the distance from the measurement point to the load. We find that Green’s functions for the vertical displacement (resp. horizontal displacement, elastic part of the tilt) agree to within 1% up to ∼400 m (resp. 2 km, 5 km) from the glaciers. Two specific cases of ice thinning are considered: (1) the alpine glaciers of the Mont Blanc region (France) where ice-thickness variations are derived from differential digital elevation model analysis for the period 1979–2003; (2) the Svalbard (Norway) glaciers by considering the ice model SVAL. We show that the rates of ground tilt are well above the limit of detection of up-to-date long-base hydrostatic tiltmeters, which, if installed next to the glaciers, could be used to monitor the time evolution of ice thinning. We also show that the topography has a strong influence on the gravity variations near the glaciers.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Ground tilt; Gravity variations; Elastic deformations; Present-day ice thinning |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Geophysics |
Research Field: | Geodynamics |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences |
UTAS Author: | Memin, A (Mr Anthony Memin) |
ID Code: | 79956 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
Deposited On: | 2012-10-15 |
Last Modified: | 2012-11-23 |
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