The gravity recovery and climate experiment: Mission overview and early results

By Byron D. Tapley, Srinivas V. Bettadpur, M. Watkins, C. Reigber. 2004

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

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Deriving daily snapshots of the Earth's gravity field from GRACE L1B data using Kalman filtering (2009, background): “[2] For more than 7 years the twin satellite mission GRACE [Tapley et al., 2004] has measured the Earth’s gravity field and its temporal variations.”
Reducing leakage error in GRACE-observed long-term ice mass change: a case study in West Antarctica (2015, background): “The gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE), a twin satellite mission jointly sponsored by the US NASA and German Aerospace Center (DLR), has been providing global measurements of Earth’s time-variable gravity field with unprecedented accuracy since it was launched in March 2002 (Tapley et a”
Precision Orbit Determination Standards for the Jason Series of Altimeter Missions (2010, methodology): “A critical development for the orbit accuracy now being achieved was the launch in 2002 of the GRACE, dedicated primarily to the improvement of the model for the Earth’s gravity field, both static and time variable (Tapley et al. 2004).”
Diagnosis of an Intense Atmospheric River Impacting the Pacific Northwest: Storm Summary and Offshore Vertical Structure Observed with COSMIC Satellite Retrievals (2008, background): “…uniformly around the globe (Anthes et al. 2008), and it represents an advancement in RO capabilities (i.e., more uniform global coverage and greater penetration into the lower troposphere, particularly over the tropics) relative to its predecessors (e.g., Wickert et al. 2001; Tapley et al. 2004).”
Preliminary observations of global ocean mass variations with GRACE (2004, background): “A description of the mission and its present status can be found in Tapley et al. [2004] .”
High‐resolution CSR GRACE RL05 mascons (2016, methodology): “GRACE mass flux and distribution has been traditionally estimated from the changes in the Earth’s gravitational potential which is typically represented by spherical harmonic expansion [Tapley et al., 2004a].”
Density and Winds in the Thermosphere Deduced from Accelerometer Data (2007, background): “As more satellite missions are beginning to use high-accuracy accelerometers such as the Challenging Minisatellite Payload [4] (CHAMP), which was launched in 2000, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment [5] (GRACE), which was launched in 2001, the Gravity Field and Steady-state Ocean Circulatio”
The TerraSAR-X Mission and System Design (2010, background): “The TerraSAR-X satellite bus (see also the related TGRS article [5] in this Special Issue) is a heritage from the successful CHAMP and GRACE missions [6].”
ESA's satellite‐only gravity field model via the direct approach based on all GOCE data (2014, background): “Its objective is the monthly mapping of the gravity ﬁ eld with a resolution of 400 km [ Tapley et al ., 2004].”
Estimating geocenter variations from a combination of GRACE and ocean model output (2008, background): “…water storage variations from the scale of large river basins [Crowley et al., 2006; Seo et al., 2006] to the continents [Schmidt et al., 2006; Tapley et al., 2004b], for estimating groundwater storage variations [Swenson et al., 2008; Yeh et al., 2006], and for ice sheet and glacier mass…”
Accuracy of GRACE mass estimates (2006, methodology): “[2] GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment), managed jointly by NASA and DLR, was launched in March, 2002 [Tapley et al., 2004].”
Precise orbit determination for the GRACE mission using only GPS data (2006, background): “The primary objective of the GRACE mission is to map, with unprecedented accuracy, the long- to medium-wavelength spherical harmonic coefficients of the Earth’s gravitational field and to observe its temporal variations ( Tapley et al. 2004 ).”