Contributions of GRACE to Climate Monitoring

• Main Authors: Chambers, Don P., Wahr, John, Rodell, Matthew, Famiglietti, James
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Arctic; Antarctic; Greenland; Pacific; Curl; Willis; Antarc*; Antarctica; Climate change; glacier; glaciers; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120003897

The NASA/German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) was launched in March 2002. Rather than looking downward, GRACE continuously monitors the locations of and precise distance between twin satellites which orbit in tandem about 200 km apart. Variations in mass near Earth's surface c...