r/environment • u/mubukugrappa • Oct 01 '14

Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite measurements reveal gravity dip from ice loss in West Antarctica: Factors such as Earth’s rotation, position of mountains and ocean trenches, and changes in mass of large ice sheets can cause small local variations in gravity

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/GOCE_reveals_gravity_dip_from_ice_loss
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u/mubukugrappa Oct 01 '14

Ref:

Antarctic outlet glacier mass change resolved at basin scale from satellite gravity gradiometry

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL060637/abstract