Assessment of point-mass solutions for recovering water mass variations from satellite gravimetry ...
Previous studies have shown the feasibility of point-mass modellings for deriving terrestrial water storage (TWS) from the harmonic solutions of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission at regional scales (e.g., Greenland and Antarctica). However, a thorough assessment of point-ma...
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Springer
2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/166387 https://boris.unibe.ch/166387/ |
| Summary: | Previous studies have shown the feasibility of point-mass modellings for deriving terrestrial water storage (TWS) from the harmonic solutions of the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission at regional scales (e.g., Greenland and Antarctica). However, a thorough assessment of point-mass modelling approaches at the global and river basin levels is still necessary. Therefore, this study’s objective is to assess the implementation and performance of the point-mass modelling approaches based on simulations using as inputs the TWS from Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS). First, the approximate solutions of Newton’s integral using the Taylor series expansion, such that the zeroth-order approximation is equivalent to the “original point-mass” (OPM) and the third-order approximation to the “improved point-mass” (IPM) modellings are presented. Second, numerical comparisons of the gravitational potential forwarded by the IPM and OPM are carried out at which both approaches show errors smaller ... |
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