Earth, Planets and Space

Table 2 Uncertainty in the water mass change induced by an uncertainty of 1 mm in each axis of the geocenter motion. Note that cubic kilometers (km\(^{3}\)), gigatons (Gt) and mm Sea Level Equivalent (mm SLE) are common units used to describe an amount of water mass, usually assuming the density of the water as the density of freshwater: 1 km\({^3}\) \(\sim\)\(=\) 1 Gt 1 \(\times\, 10^{12}\) kg \(\sim\, 1/360\) mm SLE

From: GENESIS: co-location of geodetic techniques in space

	Ocean mass	Greenland	Antarctica
	mm SLE	Gt	Gt
X	0.5	<1	\(<1\)
Y	0.3	<1	7
Z	0.6	11	68

Updated from Blazquez et al. (2018)

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