Estimating low resolution gravity fields at short time intervals to reduce temporal aliasing errors

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1094-1107

  Wiese, David N ^a   Visser, Pieter ^b   Nerem, Robert S ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GRACE; GRACE follow on; Gravity estimation; Temporal aliasing errors; Temporal gravity

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ALIASING; EARTH (PLANET); ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; ORBITS;

EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD; GRACE; GRACE FOLLOW-ON; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; TEMPORAL ALIASING; TEMPORAL GRAVITY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 79961000094     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.05.027     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. J. Alnis, A. Matveev, N. Kolachevsky, T. Udem, and T.W. Hansch Subhertz linewidth diode lasers by stabilization to vibrationally and thermally compensated ultralow-expansion glass Fabry-Pérot cavities Phys. Rev. A 77 5 2008 053809-1 053809-9
2. Bender, P.L.; Wiese, D.N.; Nerem, R.S. A possible dual-GRACE mission with 90 degree and 63 degree inclination orbits. In: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Formation Flying, Missions and Technologies. ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, pp. 1-6, 2008.
3. L. Carrre, and F. Lyard Modeling the barotropic response of the global ocean to atmospheric wind and pressure forcing Geophys. Res. Lett. 30 6 2003 1275
4. D.P. Chambers, and J.K. Willis A global evaluation of ocean bottom pressure from GRACE, OMCT, and steric-corrected altimetry J. Atm. Ocean. Tech. 27 8 2010 1395 1402
5. J.L. Chen, C.R. Wilson, D. Blankenship, and B.D. Tapley Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements Nature Geo. 2 12 2009 859 862
6. Colombo, O. The global mapping of gravity with two satellites. Technical Report 3, Netherlands, Geodetic Commission, Publications on Geodesy, New Series, 1984.
7. ESA. Gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation mission. Reports for Mission Selection, The Four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions, SP-1233(1), European Space Agency, 1999.
8. Flechtner, F. AOD1b product description document for product releases 01 to 04. GRACE 327-750 (GR-GFZ-AOD-0001), Rev 3.0, GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam, Department 1: Geodesy and Remote Sensing, 2007a.
9. Flechtner, F. AOD1b product description document for product releases 01 to 04. GRACE 327-750, GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam, 2007b.
10. C. Förste, R. Schmidt, R. Stubenvoll, F. Flechtner, U. Meyer, R. König, H. Neumayer, R. Biancale, J. Lemoine, S. Bruinsma, S. Loyer, F. Barthelmes, and S. Esselborn The GFZ/GRGS satellite and combined gravity field models EIGEN-GL04S1 and EIGEN-GL04C J. Geod. 82 6 2008 331 346
11. S. Han, C. Jekeli, and C. Shum Time-variable aliasing effects of ocean tides, atmosphere, and continental water mass on monthly mean GRACE gravity field J. Geophys. Res. 109 B4 2004
12. S.-C. Han, and P. Ditmar Localized spectral analysis of global satellite gravity fields for recovering time-variable mass redistributions J. Geod. 82 2008 423 430
13. E. Kalnay, M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K.C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, A. Leetmaa, R. Reynolds, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 77 1996 437 470
14. E. Klinker, F. Rabier, G. Kelly, and J.-F. Mahfouf The ECMWF operational implementation of four-dimensional variational assimilation. III: Experimental results and diagnostics with operational configuration Q. J. R. Meteor. Soc. 126 1191 2000
15. E. Kurtenbach, T. Mayer-Gürr, and A. Eicker Deriving daily snapshots of the Earth's gravity field from GRACE L1B data using Kalman filtering Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 2009 L17102 10.1029/2009GL039564
16. E.W. Leuliette, and L. Miller Closing the sea level rise budget with altimetry, Argo, and GRACE Geophys. Res. Lett. 2009 36
17. Loomis, B.D. Simulation study of a follow-on gravity mission to GRACE, PhD Dissertation, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, 2009.
18. S.B. Luthcke, A.A. Arendt, D.D. Rowlands, J.J. McCarthy, and C.F. Larsen Recent glacier mass changes in the Gulf of Alaska region from GRACE mascon solutions Journal of Glaciology 54 188 2008 767 777
19. S.B. Luthcke, H.J. Zwally, W. Abdalati, D.D. Rowlands, R.D. Ray, R.S. Nerem, F.G. Lemoine, J.J. McCarthy, and D.S. Chinn Recent Greenland ice mass loss by drainage system from satellite gravity observations Science 314 5803 2006 1286 1289 (Pubitemid 44846399)
20. F. Lyard, F. Lefvre, T. Letellier, and O. Francis Modelling the global ocean tides: modern insights from FES2004 Ocean Dynam. 56 2006 394 415 (Pubitemid 46030117)
21. Mueller, G.; Thorpe, I.; Mcnamara, P.; Camp, J. Laser frequency stabilization for LISA. NASA/TM-2005-212794, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2005.
22. Pavlis, D.E.; Deng, C.; McCarthy, J.J. GEODYN operations manual. Contractor report, SGT, Inc.; Greenbelt, MD, 2010.
23. R. Pierce, J. Leitch, M. Stephens, P. Bender, and R. Nerem Inter-satellite range monitoring using optical interferometry Appl. Opt. 2008 5007 5019 10.1364/AO.47.005007
24. Ray, R.D. A global ocean tide model from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry: GOT99.2. NASA technical memorandum 209478, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1999.
25. M. Rodell, P. House, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, K. Mitchell, C.J. Meng, K. Arsenault, B. Cosgrove, J. Radakovich, M. Bosilovich, J.K. Entin, J.P. Walker, D. Lohmann, and D. Toll The Global Land Data Assimilation System Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 85 2004 381 394
26. M. Rodell, I. Velicogna, and J.S. Famiglietti Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India Nature 460 7258 2009 999 1002
27. D.D. Rowlands, R.D. Ray, D.S. Chinn, and F.G. Lemoine Short-arc analysis of intersatellite tracking data in a gravity mapping mission J. Geod. 76 2002 307 316
28. N. Sneeuw, M. Sharifi, and W. Keller Gravity recovery from formation flight missions X. Peiliang, L. Jingnan, D. Athanasios, VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy vol. 132 2008 Springer Verlag
29. S. Swenson, and J. Wahr Methods for inferring regional surface-mass anomalies from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) measurements of time-variable gravity J. Geod. 82 2002 423 430
30. S. Swenson, and J. Wahr Post-processing removal of correlated errors in GRACE data Geophys. Res. Lett. 2006 33
31. B.D. Tapley, S. Bettadpur, M. Watkins, and C. Reigber The gravity recovery and climate experiment: mission overview and early results Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 2004 L09607 10.1029/2004GL019920 (Pubitemid 39026633)
32. B.D. Tapley, B.E. Schutz, and G.H. Born Statistical Orbit Determination 2004 Elsevier Inc. San Diego
33. P.F. Thompson, S.V. Bettadpur, and B.D. Tapley Impact of short period, non-tidal, temporal mass variability on grace gravity estimates Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 2004 L06619 10.1029/2003GL019285
34. V.M. Tiwari, J. Wahr, and S. Swenson Dwindling groundwater resources in northern India, from satellite gravity observations Geophys. Res. Lett. 2009 36
35. Ullman, R. SOLVE program mathematical formulation. Rep. HSTX-G and G-9201, 1997.
36. van Dam, T.; Visser, P.; Sneeuw, N.; Losch, M.; Gruber, T.; Bamber, J.; Bierkens, M.; King, M.; Smit, M. Monitoring and modelling individual sources of mass distributions and transport in the Earth system by means of satellites. Tech. rep.; Final Report, ESA Contract 20403, 2008.
37. I. Velicogna Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE Geophys. Res. Lett. 2009 36
38. P.N.A.M. Visser, E.J.O. Schrama, N. Sneeuw, and M. Weigelt Dependency of resolvable gravitational spatial resolution on space-borne observation techniques S. Kenyon, M.C. Pacino, U. Marti, Proceedings of the 2009 IAG Symposium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August-4 September 2009 (Prel.) International Association of Geodesy Symposia vol. 136 2011 Springer-Verlag 6 pp.
39. P.N.A.M. Visser, N. Sneeuw, T. Reubelt, M. Losch, and T. van Dam Space-borne gravimetric satellite constellations and ocean tides: aliasing effects Geophys. J. Int. 181 2 2010 789 805
40. H. von Storch, and F.W. Zwiers Statistical Analysis in Climate Research 1999 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK
41. D.N. Wiese, W.M. Folkner, and R.S. Nerem Alternative mission architectures for a gravity recovery satellite mission J. Geod. 83 2009 569 581
42. X. Wu, M.B. Heflin, H. Schotman, B.L.A. Vermeeersen, D. Dong, R.S. Gross, E.R. Ivins, A.W. Moore, and S.E. Owen Simultaneous estimation of global present-day water transport and glacial isostatic adjustment Nat. Geosci. 3 2010 642 646
43. L. Zenner, T. Gruber, A. Jaeggi, and G. Beutler Propagation of atmospheric model errors to gravity potential harmonics-impact on GRACE de-aliasing Geophys. J. Int. 182 2 2010 797 807