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RECOG RL01: correcting GRACE total water storage estimates for global lakes/reservoirs and earthquakes
Simon Deggim
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geodesy & Geoinformatics, HafenCity University Hamburg, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Annette Eicker
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geodesy & Geoinformatics, HafenCity University Hamburg, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Lennart Schawohl
Geodesy & Geoinformatics, HafenCity University Hamburg, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Helena Gerdener
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Bonn, 53012 Bonn, Germany
Kerstin Schulze
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Bonn, 53012 Bonn, Germany
Olga Engels
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Bonn, 53012 Bonn, Germany
Jürgen Kusche
Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, University of Bonn, 53012 Bonn, Germany
Anita T. Saraswati
Department of Engineering, University of Luxembourg, 4364 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tonie van Dam
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, 1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Laura Ellenbeck
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Technical University of Munich (DGFI-TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
Denise Dettmering
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Technical University of Munich (DGFI-TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
Christian Schwatke
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Technical University of Munich (DGFI-TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany
Stefan Mayr
Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Igor Klein
Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Laurent Longuevergne
CNRS, Geosciences Rennes – UMR 6118, Université de Rennes, 35000 Rennes, France
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GRACE provides us with global changes of terrestrial water storage. However, the data have a low spatial resolution, and localized storage changes in lakes/reservoirs or mass change due to earthquakes causes leakage effects. The correction product RECOG RL01 presented in this paper accounts for these effects. Its application allows for improving calibration/assimilation of GRACE into hydrological models and better drought detection in earthquake-affected areas.
GRACE provides us with global changes of terrestrial water storage. However, the data have a low...
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