Evaluation of the glacial isostatic adjustment(GIA) models for Antarctica based on GPS vertical velocities

作     者：Fei LI Chao MA Shengkai ZHANG Jintao LEI Weifeng HAO Qingchuan ZHANG Wenhao LI Fei LI;Chao MA;Shengkai ZHANG;Jintao LEI;Weifeng HAO;Qingchuan ZHANG;Wenhao LI

作者机构：Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and MappingWuhan UniversityWuhan 430079China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第63卷第4期

页      面：575-590页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017YFA0603104) the State Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41531069) the Independent Scientific Research Program for Crossdisciplinary of Wuhan University(Grant No.2042017kf0209)。 

主　　题：Antarctica GPS Glacial isostatic adjustment Vertical velocity Uncertainty 

摘      要：Due to the scarcity of data, modeling the glacial isostatic adjustment(GIA) for Antarctica is more difficult than it is for the ancient ice sheet area in North America and Northern Europe. Large uncertainties are observed in existing GIA models for Antarctica. Modern space-based geodetic measurements provide checks and constraints for GIA models. The present-day uplift velocities of global positioning system(GPS) stations at 73 stations in Antarctica and adjacent regions from 1996 to 2014 have been estimated using GAMIT/GLOBK version 10.5 with a colored noise model. To easily analyze the effect of difference sources on the vertical velocities, and for easy comparison with both GIA model predictions and GPS results from Argus et al.(2014) and Thomas et al.(2011), seven sub-regions are divided. They are the northern Antarctic Peninsula, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, the Amundsen Sea coast, the Ross Ice Shelf, Mount Erebus, inland Southwest Antarctica and the East Antarctic coast,respectively. The results show that the fast uplift in the north Antarctic Peninsula and Pine Island Bay regions may be caused by the elastic response to snow and ice mass loss. The fast subsidence near Mount Erebus may be related to the activity of a magma body. The uplift or subsidence near the East Antarctic coast is very slow while the uplift for the rest regions is mainly caused by GIA. By analyzing the correlation and the associated weighted root mean square(WRMS) between the GIA predictions and the GPS velocities, we found that the ICE-6G_C(VM5a) model and the Geruo 13 model show the most consistency with our GPS results, while the W12a and IJ05_R2 series models show poor consistency with our GPS results. Although improved greatly in recent years, the GIA modeling in Antarctica still lags behind the modeling of the North American. Some GPS stations, for example the Bennett Nunatak station(BENN), have observed large discrepancies between GIA predictions and GPS velocities.Because of the large uncertainties in calculating elastic responses due to the significant variations of ice and snow loads, the GPS velocities still cannot be used as a precise constraint on GIA models.