In this study, we calculate the hydrological plus cryospheric excitation of polar motion (hydrological plus cryospheric angular momentum, HAM/CAM) using mascon solutions based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) a...
The importance of high-resolution and continuous hydrologic data for monitoring and predicting water levels is crucial for sustainable water management. Monitoring Total Water Storage (TWS) over large areas by using satellite images such as Gravity R...
We use multi-source remote sensing data to identify the details of a mascon south-east of the lunar Copernicus crater. Studies of the topography, gravity, geochronology and mineral are combined to prove that the mascon is a buried peak-ring basin wit...
Aliasing error induced by tide-related high frequency mass variations is one of the most significant errors in the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). In the present work, we evaluated the 161.0-day S2, 171.2-day P1, and 322.1-day S1 oce...
To facilitate easy accessibility to the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) results for the geoscientific community, multiple institutions have successively developed mass anomaly grid products including mas...
Commonly used mass-concentration (mascon) solutions estimated from Level-1B Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On data, provided by processing centers such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) or the Goddard Space Flig...
In general, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models incur high computational costs when dealing with realistic and complicated flows. In contrast, the mass-consistent flow (MASCON) field model provides a three-dimensional flow field at reasonable c...
The terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA) gap between the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its follow-on mission (GRACE-FO) is now a significant issue for scientific research in high-resolution time-variable gravity fields. This...
Monitoring the groundwater storage (GWS) changes is crucial to the rational utilization of groundwater and to ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau of China, which is one of the regions with the most extreme ecological environmental damage in t...
As a major agricultural center in China, Henan Province is highly dependent on groundwater resources for its socioeconomic development. However, under the triple pressure of intensive agricultural irrigation, surging industrial water demand, and acce...
We presented an improved method for estimation of regional surface mass variations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)-derived precise intersatellite geopotential differences using a priori constraints. An alternative analytic fo...
The extent to which the South-to-North Water Transfer Project has influenced the trend in water storage deficit in the North China Plain since its official opening in late 2014 has not been systematically assessed. We evaluated the changes in terrest...
Iraq and other semi-arid regions are facing severe climate change impacts, including increased temperatures and decreased rainfall. Changes to climate variables have posed a significant challenge to groundwater storage dynamics. In this regard, the G...
The large lakes and reservoirs of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau play a key role in regional water resources, yet their influence on terrestrial water storage (TWS) changes at different spatial scales remains unclear. This study employed the constr...
Over the past two decades, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission and its successor, GRACE-follow on (GRACE-FO), have played a vital role in climate research. However, the absence of certain observations during and betw...
In the so-called point-mass modeling, surface densities are represented by point masses, providing only an approximated solution of the surface integral for the gravitational potential. Here, we propose a refinement for the point-mass modeling based...
This study evaluates the use of remote sensing data to improve the understanding of groundwater resources in climate-sensitive regions with limited data availability and increasing agricultural water demands. The research focuses on estimating ground...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) level-2 spherical harmonic (SH) solutions are noisy and thus require filtering. Filtering reduces noise but affects signal quality via signal leakage. Generally, a leakage correction is required for...
In this study, the Amu Darya river basin, Syr Darya river basin and Balkhash lake basin in Central Asia were selected as typical study areas. Temporal/spatial changes from 2002 to 2016 in the terrestrial water storage (TWS) and the groundwater storag...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data have been extensively used to evaluate the total terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) from hydrological models. However, which individual water storage components (i.e., soil moisture sto...
We demonstrate a new approach to recover water mass changes from GRACE satellite data at a daily temporal resolution. Such a product can be beneficial in monitoring extreme weather events that last a few days and are missing by conventional monthly G...
The reprocessing of the satellite gravitational gradiometry (SGG) data from the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite mission in 2018/2019 considerably reduced the low-frequency noise in the data, leading to reduc...
North China (NC) is experiencing significant groundwater depletion. We used GRACE and GRACE-FO RL06 Level-2 data with Mascon data from April 2002 to July 2022. We fused these two types of data through the generalized three-cornered hat method and fur...
Time-varying gravity observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites measures surface water and ice mass redistribution driven by weather and climate forcing and has emerged as one of the most important data types in measur...
Accurate data collection and time series creation are crucial for understanding these changes. However, many areas lack reliable data due to geopolitical issues and government permissions. Urgent action is needed for sustainable water management. Thi...
Limited by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) measurement principle and sensors, the spatial resolution of mass flux solutions is about 2–3° in mid-latitudes at monthly intervals. To retrieve...
Accurately monitoring terrestrial water storage (TWS) variations is essential due to global climate change and growing water demands. This study investigates TWS changes in Oregon, USA, using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data from the Ne...
Inland water storage change is a fundamental part of the hydrologic cycle, which reflects the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on water resources. In this study, we used multisatellite data (from satellite altimetry, remote sensi...
The melting of the polar ice caps is considered to be an essential factor for global sea-level rise and has received significant attention. Quantitative research on ice cap mass changes is critical in global climate change. In this study, GRACE JPL R...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data retrieval experiment has been instrumental in characterizing the global fluctuations in terrestrial water storage (ΔTWS) over the past 20 years. Given the limited availability o...
In this study, we used in situ measurements for the first time to analyze the applicability and effectiveness of evaluating groundwater storage (GWS) changes across China using Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite products and hy...
Monthly gravitational field solutions as spherical harmonic coefficients produced by the GRACE satellite mission require post-processing to reduce the effects of shortwave-length noises and north–south stripe errors. However, the spatial smooth...
The Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is famous for its ecological and economic importance as well as frequent flood characteristics. In this study, multiple satellite remote sensing observations (e.g., GRACE, MODIS, Altimetry, and T...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite solutions have been considerably applied to assess the reliability of hydrological models on a global scale. However, no single hydrological model can be suitable for all regions. Here, a...
Quantifying changes in groundwater storage (GWS) remains a fundamental challenge in hydrology, given the sparsity of long-term in situ monitoring networks and the inherent difficulty of direct subsurface observation. Although GRACE and GRACE-FO satel...
Gravimetry measurements from the GRACE and GRACE-Follow-On satellites provide observations of ocean bottom pressure (OBP), which can be differenced between basin boundaries to infer mass transport variability at a given level in the deep ocean. Howev...
Accurate terrestrial water storage (TWS) estimation is important to evaluate the situation of the water resources over the Yangtze River Basin (YRB). This study exploits the TWS observation from the new temporal gravity field model, HUST-Grace2016 (H...
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) is a key parameter for understanding regional water cycles and climate change. To address the low spatial resolution and temporal gaps of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its successor satellites (GR...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has provided global observations of temporal variations in the gravity field resulting from mass redistribution at the surface and within the Earth for the period 2002–2017. Although G...
The Yangtze River Basin experienced a once-in-a-century extreme drought in 2022 due to extreme weather, which had a serious impact on the local agricultural production and ecological environment. In order to investigate the spatial distribution and o...
One of the areas that show the most visible effects of human-induced land alterations is also the world’s most essential resource: water. Decision-makers in arid regions face considerable difficulties in providing and maintaining sustainable wa...
While in-situ estuarine discharge has been correlated and reconstructed well with localized remotely-sensed data and hydraulic variables since the 1990s, its correlation and reconstruction using averaged GPS-inferred water storage from satellite grav...
Surface mass variations inferred from the Global Positioning System (GPS), and observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On (GFO) complement each other in terms of spatial and temporal coverage. This paper prese...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), and its follow-on mission (GRACE-FO), provides a novel measurement of the variations in ocean bottom pressure (OBP) at global and basin scales, including those in marginal seas. However, these meas...
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mascon data relies on minor gravitational field variations to map terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA). However, the coarse spatial resolution of three degrees by three degrees restricts their a...
This work is a climatological evaluation of terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSAs), which act as driving forces for sustainable development, in one of the most populous countries of the world. The objective of this work is to evaluate RL06 masco...
The availability of water is crucial for the growth and sustainability of human development. The effective management of water resources is essential due to their renewable nature and their critical role in ensuring food security and water safety. In...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), a critical hydrological regulator for Asia through its extensive glacier systems, high-altitude lakes, and intricate network of rivers, exhibits amplified sensitivity to climate-driven alterations in precipitati...
Dense Global Position System (GPS) arrays can be used to invert the terrestrial water-storage anomaly (TWSA) with higher accuracy. However, the uneven distribution of GPS stations greatly limits the application of GPS to derive the TWSA. Aiming to so...
Many recent mass balance estimates using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and satellite altimetry (including two kinds of sensors of radar and laser) show that the ice mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is in overall decline. Ho...
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