ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric Mass Balance from GRACE data, derived by DTU Space, v3.0

This dataset provides a Gravimetric Mass Balance (GMB) product for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), generated by DTU Space, based on monthly snapshots of the Earth’s gravity field provided by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its follow-on satellite mission (GRACE-FO). The product relies on monthly gravity field solutions (L2) of release 06 generated at the Center for Space Research (University of Texas at Austin) and spans the period from April 2002 through May 2024.

The GMB product covers the full GRACE mission period (April 2002 - June 2017) and is extended by means of GRACE-FO data starting from June 2018, thus including 200 monthly solutions. The mass change estimation is based on inversion method developed at DTU Space.

Two different types of products are available. First, the gridded mass trends product is comprised of ice mass change trends for cells of equal area with 44 km resolution covering the whole GIS and different drainage basins. Second, the mass change time series product provides time series of integrated mass changes for 8 drainage basins and the entire GIS over different 5-year periods between 2002 and 2024. Basin definitions and further data descriptions can be found in the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document and the Product Specification Document which are provided on the project website.

Reference:
Barletta, V. R., Sørensen, L. S., and Forsberg, R. (2013) 'Scatter of mass changes estimates at basin scale for Greenland and Antarctica', The Cryosphere, 7, 1411-1432, doi:10.5194/tc-7-1411-2013.