GFZ GravIS RL06 Ice-Mass Change Products

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Sasgen, Ingo; Groh, Andreas; Horwath, Martin (2019): GFZ GravIS RL06 Ice-Mass Change Products. V. 0005. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.GRAVIS_06_L3_ICE

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I N R E V I E W : Sasgen, Ingo; Groh, Andreas; Horwath, Martin (2019): GFZ GravIS RL06 Ice-Mass Change Products. V. 0005. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.GRAVIS_06_L3_ICE

Abstract

GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-3 products based on GFZ RL06 Level-2B products (Dahle & Murböck, 2019) representing ice-mass changes for the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). The ice-mass changes are provided both as basin average product and as gridded product.

Basin-average ice-mass changes are obtained using the inversion procedure based on a forward modelling approach as described in Sasgen et al. (2013) for the AIS and Sasgen et al. (2012) for the GIS.

Gridded ice-mass changes are provided at polar-stereographic grids with a grid spacing of 50 x 50 km^2. The applied algorithm is based on tailored sensitivity kernels (Döhne et al., 2023; Groh & Horwath, 2021), and has also been used to generate gravimetric mass balance products within the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) projects for the AIS and the GIS.

These Level-3 products are visualized at GFZ's web portal GravIS (https://gravis.gfz.de).

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Version History:

13 March 2026:
Release of Version 0005. This is an update of Version 0004 of the same data set (see changelog).

16 January 2025:
Release of Version 0004. This is an update of Version 0003 of the same data set (see changelog).

21 April 2023:
Release of Version 0003. This is an update of Version 0002 of the same data set (see changelog).

09 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 in the "old_versions" subfolder of the data download folder.

Authors

Sasgen, Ingo;Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhafen, Germany
Groh, Andreas;Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Dresden, Germany
Horwath, Martin;Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Dresden, Germany

Contact

Sasgen, Ingo; Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhafen, Germany;
Horwath, Martin; Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Dresden, Germany;

Contributors

Dahle, Christoph; Murböck, Michael

Keywords

Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), GRACE Follow-on (GRACE-FO), Level-3, Mass, Mass Transport, Ice-mass Change, Time Variable Gravity, Antarctic Mass Balance, Greenland Mass Balance, Sea-level Change

GCMD Science Keywords

Science Keywords > EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GRAVITY/GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
Platforms > Space-based Platforms > Earth Observation Satellites > GRACE
Platforms > Space-based Platforms > Earth Observation Satellites > GRACE-FO

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