Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Scientific Reports
Publication Date
7-24-2025
Abstract
Hydrological surface loads, such as snowpack and soil moisture, are the main drivers of seasonal crustal movements as seen by space geodetic techniques. In addition to that, seawater sometimes exerts additional forces for coastal stations, and the atmosphere often plays an important role for stations within continents. Here we report a case in and around the Arabian Peninsula. Despite little seasonal hydrological changes there, stations show fairly uniform seasonal vertical crustal movements, characterized by ~ 1 cm winter subsidence, over the entire region. We found that they are mainly driven by the atmospheric loading. Differences in their amplitudes are compensated by large and moderate seasonal ocean mass changes in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (also called the Arabian Gulf), respectively, resulting in fairly uniform amplitudes of the winter subsidence in this region.
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ISSN
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
15
Issue
1
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Keywords
Arabian peninsula, Atmosphere, Crustal movements, Ocean, Satellite geodesy
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Usman, Muhammad and Heki, Kosuke, "Two origins of the winter subsidence in and around the Arabian Peninsula" (2025). All Works. 7413.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/7413
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series