The SBL Project "Towards a standard model of present-day signals due to post-glacial rebound" was initiated in February 2005 through a Call for Submission of predictions of the present-day post-glacial rebound signal (PGS) in geodetic quantities. The goals and conditions of the Call were later clarified in an mail.
In response, the SBL has received a number of submission which the authors agreed to make freely available through the SBL web pages. An overview of the submission is available in a table. More submissions are expected in the near future from several authors.
The SBL and the GGFC are very grateful to the authors who have made their predictions freely available for the SBL pages. All material available through this web site is available for down-load and use in scientific studies. However, proper credit should be given to the source and the authors. Thus, using the model predictions in should be cited
The submitted predictions are currently being made available under the authors names as well as organised according to the geodetic quantities (the latter is not fully completed). All submission also included the earth and ice models used in the computation. These are also made available both under the author names as well as separately under earth and ice models. Documentation provided by the authors is available under the author names and additionally where appropriated.
The predictions of secular trends in displacement, sea level and geoid are made available as global grids with a resolution of 1 degree by 1 degree. These grids are provided as submitted by the authors and also in the SBL Grid Format. Predictions of the secular trend in polar motion are given in a table.
Additional information pertaining to the ice and earth models used are given as submitted by the authors, as well as in the SBL Grid Format (for the ice model history).
Intercomparing of these predictions as well as comparing them to geodetic observations is currently under way. Preliminary results are available at http://geodesy.unr.edu/hanspeterplag/projects/pgs/.