Chen_GRACE_Applications.pdf

Decades of tracking to geodetic satellites 111 days of GRACE data 13 months of GRACE data Annual Runoff Estimates in Amazon Basin GRACE with leakage correction GRACE without leakage correction River Gauge Observations (Please note the different color scales, ± 8 vs. ± 4.) Antarctic Peninsula (AP) Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) Enderby Land (EL) ?? Step-1: To choose six regions (shaded) where GRACE data show prominent signals. In each region (on 1° x 1° grid), a trial mass rate (in units of km3/yr) is distributed uniformly. The remainder of the grid (outside Antarctica) retains GRACE mass rates. Therefore, spatial leakage from the 6 regions to areas outside Antarctica should be evident when comparing the model and GRACE rate maps. This is a variation of the forward modeling technique in our previous studies. ?? Step-2: To convert the constructed mass rate grids into spherical harmonics. ?? Step-3: To replicate procedures (used to transform GRACE data) to compute surface mass changes (no degree-1 terms, same truncation and same 2-steps filtering, …). ?? Step-4: To adjust model rates and region shapes until there is general agreement with the GRACE map. As a final constraint, we force model integrated mass rate for each region (sum over grid points with cosine of latitude weights within boundaries where magnitude exceeds 1 cm/year) to agree with the GRACE map. (Units: cm/year of equivalent water height) GRACE Yearly TWS change (Yearly = Average from July of the previous year through June) Thanks!