| Summary: | The GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission was successfully launched on May 22nd, 2018 and continues the 15-year data record of monthly global mass changes from the GRACE mission (2002-2017). The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) as part of the GRACE/GRACE-FO Science Data System (SDS) has recently reprocessed the complete GRACE mission data (RL06 in the SDS nomenclature). These RL06 processing standards serve as common baseline for the continuation with GRACE-FO data. This presentation provides an overview of the current processing status and the validation of the GFZ GRACE/GRACE-FO RL06 gravity field products. Besides its Level-2 products (monthly sets of spherical harmonic coefficients representing the Earth's gravity potential), GFZ additionally generates user-friendly Level-3 products in collaboration with the Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) and TU Dresden. These Level-3 data products comprise dedicated mass anomaly products of terrestrial water storage over non-glaciated regions, bottom pressure variations in the oceans and ice mass changes in Antarctica and Greenland, available via GFZ's Gravity Information Service (GravIS) portal (http://gravis.gfz-potsdam.de/).
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