GFZ GravIS RL06 Continental Water Storage Anomalies

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Boergens, Eva; Dobslaw, Henryk; Dill, Robert (2019): GFZ GravIS RL06 Continental Water Storage Anomalies. V. 0006. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.GRAVIS_06_L3_TWS

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I N R E V I E W : Boergens, Eva; Dobslaw, Henryk; Dill, Robert (2019): GFZ GravIS RL06 Continental Water Storage Anomalies. V. 0006. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.GRAVIS_06_L3_TWS

Abstract

GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-3 product based on GFZ RL06 Level-2B products (Dahle & Murböck, 2019) representing Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS) anomalies provided at 1° latitude-longitude grids as defined over all continental regions except Greenland and Antarctica. The TWS anomaly grids are provided in NetCDF format containing four different variables:

1) 'tws': gravity-based TWS
2) 'std_tws': gravity-based TWS uncertainties
3) 'leakage': spatial leakage contained in TWS
4) 'model_atmosphere': background model atmospheric mass

These Level-3 products are visualized at GFZ's web portal GravIS (https://gravis.gfz.de). Link to data products: ftp://isdcftp.gfz-potsdam.de/grace/GravIS/GFZ/Level-3/TWS

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Version History:

16 January 2025:
Release of Version 0006. This is an update of Version 0005 of the same data set (see changelog).

21 April 2023:
Release of Version 0005. This is an update of Version 0004 of the same data set (see changelog).

9 December 2021:
Release of Version 0004. This is an update of Version 0003 of the same data set (see changelog).

9 September 2020:
Release of Version 0003. This is an update of Version 0002 of the same data set (see changelog).

9 June 2020:
Release of Version 0002. This is an update of Version 0001 of the same data set (see changelog).

All changes and updates are documented in the changelog available via the data download section. Previously released versions of this data set are available at ftp://isdcftp.gfz-potsdam.de/grace/GravIS/GFZ/Level-3/TWS/old_versions.3/TWS/old_versions

Authors

Boergens, Eva;GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Dobslaw, Henryk;GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Dill, Robert;GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Contact

Boergens, Eva; GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany;

Contributors

Dahle, Christoph; Murböck, Michael

Keywords

Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), GRACE Follow-on (GRACE-FO), Level-3, Mass, Mass Transport, Total Water Storage, Time Variable Gravity, Mass Balance, Satellite Geodesy

GCMD Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GRAVITY/GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
Earth Observation Satellites > NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder > GRACE

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