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A Novel Approach Combining GRACE(-FO) and Altimetry Reveals a Recent East-to-West Shift in the Slowdown of Glacier-Scale Mass Loss in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Wu, Haotian, Ran, Jiangjun, Ali, Shoaib, Tangdamrongsub, Natthachet, and Fettweis, Xavier, 2025. A Novel Approach Combining GRACE(-FO) and Altimetry Reveals a Recent East-to-West Shift in the Slowdown of Glacier-Scale Mass Loss in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), 130(5):e2024JB030862, doi:10.1029/2024JB030862.

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@ARTICLE{2025JGRB..13030862W,
       author = {{Wu}, Haotian and {Ran}, Jiangjun and {Ali}, Shoaib and {Tangdamrongsub}, Natthachet and {Fettweis}, Xavier},
        title = "{A Novel Approach Combining GRACE(-FO) and Altimetry Reveals a Recent East-to-West Shift in the Slowdown of Glacier-Scale Mass Loss in the Greenland Ice Sheet}",
      journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth)},
     keywords = {time variable gravity, mass change, Greenland, ice sheet, glacier, climatic variation},
         year = 2025,
        month = may,
       volume = {130},
       number = {5},
          eid = {e2024JB030862},
        pages = {e2024JB030862},
     abstract = "{The mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has profound impacts on
        sea levels, the water cycle, and global climate variability. The
        Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its follow-
        on mission (GRACE-FO) provide accurate but limited spatial
        resolution observations of GrIS mass changes. Therefore, we
        developed a novel multi-time scale weighted forward modeling
        (WFM) approach that combines GRACE(-FO) observations with
        satellite altimetry data to improve mass change estimations in
        the GrIS at high-resolution (25 km {\texttimes} 25 km). The WFM
        solution effectively represents the glacier-scale interannual
        mass variations, with an average correlation of 0.71 with the
        Input-Output method, higher than Mascon products. The WFM
        solution reveals a spatial pattern of glacier mass change from
        2020 to 2023, indicating that the slowdown in the GrIS glacier
        mass loss has shifted from the east to the west compared to
        2013{\textendash}2018; the mass loss rate decreased by 44.9
        {\ensuremath{\pm}} 1.04 Gt/yr in the western GrIS and increased
        by 42.3 {\ensuremath{\pm}} 0.98 Gt/yr in the eastern GrIS. The
        most pronounced mass loss slowdown occurred at Jakobshavn
        Glacier (7.3 {\ensuremath{\pm}} 0.07 Gt/yr). In this pattern,
        the trough of low-pressure west of the GrIS moved westward, and
        a high-pressure anomaly over the North Atlantic south of the
        GrIS intensified southwesterly winds over the GrIS. These winds
        transported warmer, moister air from the Atlantic toward the
        western GrIS, leading to increased snowfall and rainfall,
        thereby promoting glacier mass accumulation. If this pattern
        continues, it could benefit the preservation of the ice in the
        western GrIS.}",
          doi = {10.1029/2024JB030862},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025JGRB..13030862W},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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