Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences in 2025
2026-02-06
Geodetic Techniques for Climate-Induced Surface Deformation: A Global Review
Authors
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Chang Yu
Jilin Earthquake Agency, Changchun 130117, China
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Tiexin Lv
Changchun Jirun Jingyue Hospital, Changchun 130110, China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i1.12961Abstract
Climate change is causing extensive and quantifiable surface deformation by moving mass in the cryosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. These deformations can give a great deal of information on the dynamics of the Earth system and interactions between climate processes and solid Earth processes. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), satellite gravimetry, and other supplementary techniques have become important tools to be used to monitor and quantify these deformations. The insight of this review is the understanding of the mechanisms that cause deformation on the surface due to climate change, the strengths and weaknesses of the modern geodetic observation methods, and the way in which these geodetic observations are reconciled with the Earth's response models and climate simulations. Polar, alpine, hydrologically sensitive, and coastal case studies demonstrate that geodesy can be used globally in climate change studies. Although there has been a lot of improvement, there have been many problems in signal separation, data coverage, and uncertainties in models, but new emerging technologies are promising solutions. A combined climate/geodetic observing system will be critical in enhancing long-term monitoring and in further developing the knowledge on how the Earth responds to climate change.
Keywords:
Climate Change; Surface Deformation; Geodesy; GNSS; InSARReferences
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Yu, C., & Lv, T. (2026). Geodetic Techniques for Climate-Induced Surface Deformation: A Global Review. Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences, 8(1), 224–241. https://doi.org/10.30564/jees.v8i1.12961
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