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Session Proposal: Measurements and Modeling of the Earth's Response to Surface Mass Variability (AGU25)

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Measurements and Modeling of the Earth's Response to Surface Mass Variability

Session ID#: 249953

Session Description:
The Earth’s response to surface mass variations results in deformation and stress perturbations that are resolvable with geodetic measurements and advanced modeling techniques. Modern geodetic tools, such as GNSS, InSAR, and gravimetry, can measure the effect of solid Earth deformation with high accuracy. This session intends to incorporate geodesy’s applications to hydrology, cryosphere, seismology, and solid-Earth studies. We invite presentations that bridge geodetic observations and modeling using elastic and anelastic loading theory and the resulting crustal stress changes from mass movement on land, ocean, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Topics include, but are not limited to, studies that calculate surface deformation or acquire independent loading data, and compare with the geodetic measurements. We welcome presentations using geodetic deformation measurements at local- to global-scale that investigate surface loading processes, thermoelastic models, decipher elastic and anelastic signals, improve Earth structure and rheology, or present correlations between loading deformation and seismic, volcanic, and hydrological activities.
Index Terms:

1211 Non-tectonic deformation [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1217 Time variable gravity [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1218 Mass balance [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1236 Rheology of the lithosphere and mantle [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
Primary Convener:  Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, United States
Conveners:  Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Christopher W Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Surendra Adhikari, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Esther O Oyedele, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States
 
Assessing Vertical Displacement Predictions from GIA Models in the Great Lakes Region Using Geodetic Observations (1862068)
Helio Lopes Guerra Neto, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
An evaluation of models of global deformation from ongoing ice mass changes and long-term GIA (1881064)
Katarina Vance, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Sophie Coulson, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
 
InSAR Times Series Reveal Groundwater-Induced Subsidence Shaped by Thrust-Controlled Diapir in Guercif Basin, Northeastern Morocco. (1885422)
Hafid Ouammou, Research and Development Laboratory of Applied Geosciences, FSTT, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco, Tangier, Morocco and Abdelilah Tahayt, FSTT, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, Morocco
 
Resolving groundwater storage changes using integrated geodetic approaches (Invited) (1887154)
Grace Carlson1, Susanna Werth2, Manoochehr Shirzaei2, Manuela Girotto3, Christian Massari4, Sara Modanesi5 and Marco Dionigi6, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, (4)Research Institute of the Geo-Hydrological Protection, Perugia, Italy, (5)CNR/IRPI, Perugia, Italy, (6)CNR-IRPI National Research Council, Perugia, Italy
 
Transient Earth Rheology Temporarily Slows West Antarctic Ice Retreat in Future Climate Projections (1893559)
Allie Coonin1, B Parazin2, Harriet C.P. Lau3 and Natalya A Gomez2, (1)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)McGill University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
 
Impact of 3D Earth Structure on Load-Induced Surface Displacement and Inferred Terrestrial Water Storage Change (1895045)
Matthew Swarr, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Donald F Argus, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Hilary R Martens, Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, United States, Yuning Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Liang Xue, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States and William P Gardner, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
 
A Soil Temperature-Driven Layered Model Reveals Diurnal Thermoelastic Deformation in GNSS Height Time Series (1939342)
Ran Lu1, Zhao Li1, Yanming Feng2, Lingfeng Ye2, Mingyuan Zhang3 and Weiping Jiang1, (1)Wuhan University, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, GNSS Research Center, Wuhan, China, (2)Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Science, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, (3)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Innovation Academy for Microsatellites, Shanghai, China
 
Attributing vertical land motion in the Western U.S.: Comparing SOPAC and JPL GNSS-derived displacements against GFZ loading models and GRACE (1945787)
Roland Hohensinn1,2, Yehuda Bock2, Lavoisiane Ferreira2, Laura Jensen1, Robert Dill1, Angelyn Moore3, Donald F Argus3, Zhen Liu3 and Hilary R Martens4, (1)GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, United States
 
A New Perspective on the Mantle Rheology of West Antarctica through GIA Modeling with 3D Viscosity Constrained by Geodetic Observations (1957928)
Donna dePolo1, Tao Yuan1, Shijie Zhong1 and Matt A King2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Tasmania, Surveying and Spatial Sciences, School of Technology, Environments and Design, Hobart, TAS, Australia
 
Hydrologic Loading and Its Effect on the GNSS Vertical Component in the Bengal Basin (1975977)
Md Zayed Abdur Razzak, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States; MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Anwar Hossain Bhuiyan, Dhaka University, Department of Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Syed Humayun Akhter, University of Dhaka, Department of Geology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Anika Nawar Mayeesha, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, United States and Eric Ostrom Lindsey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
 
Evaluating the consistency betweenmodels of atmosphere, ocean, and continental water withgeodetic observations of Earth's mass center (1984516)
Donald F Argus1, Bruce Joseph Haines2, Michael B Heflin3, Kevin Gaastra2, Athina Peidou2, Felix W Landerer2, David N Wiese4, Corne Kreemer5, Geoffrey Blewitt6, William C Hammond7, Matthew Swarr8, Hilary R Martens9, Zachary Young10, Nicholas Lau11, Adrian A Borsa12, Roland Hohensinn13, Yehuda Bock13 and Angelyn W Moore2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, (6)Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (7)Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, United States, (8)University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, (9)Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (10)Nevada Geodetic Lab, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, United States, (11)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (12)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (13)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States
 
Estimates of Groundwater Variations in the Great Lakes Basin Combining Geodetic and Hydrological Datasets (1987373)
Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, United States, Helio Lopes Guerra Neto, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Changes in gravitational energy of the Earth associated with global surface mass transport derived from GRACE and GRACE-FO (1988726)
Changyi Charles Xu, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yawen She, Instiute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and He Tang, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
 
Simulated Evaluation of Kalman-Based TWSC Inversion Using GRACE, GNSS, and NLDAS over the Continental United States. (1991976)
Yen-RU LAI, National Chung Hsing University, Department of Civil Engineering, Taichung, Taiwan and Wan-Leng Ke, NCHU National Chung Hsing University, Department of Civil Engineering, Taichung, Taiwan
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