Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Landerer, F W ^a   Swenson, S C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; GAIN FACTORS; GEOPOTENTIALS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; GRID POINTS; LENGTH SCALE; PROJECT WEBSITE; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SIGNAL MODIFICATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SCALE; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TEMPORAL FREQUENCY; TEMPORAL GRAVITY; TEMPORAL MODES; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 84860615114     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011453     Document Type: Article

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