The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) announced the public release of the Tellus JPL Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE-FO Mascon Ocean, Ice, and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height Release 06.1 version 03 (RL06.1Mv03) datasets.
This release includes two Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Monthly Mascon RL06.1Mv03 datasets and three time series of the Mascon derived sea level changes, which supersede the existing JPL Mascon RL06Mv02 datasets (DOI: 10.5067/TEMSC-3JC62; 10.5067/TEMSC-3MJ62; 10.5067/TEMSC-OTS62; 10.5067/TEMSC-GTS62; 10.5067/TEMSC-ATS62). The RL06.1Mv03 differs from RL06Mv02 only in the Level-1B accelerometer transplant data that is used for the GRACE-FO2 (GF2) satellite. This provides improved estimates of non-gravitational forces on GF2, and in turn yields improved quality of the gravity and mass change data products derived from Mascon. Two Mascon datasets provide monthly coverage on a global 0.5-degree regular lat/lon grid, while the three time series datasets provide the non-steric or mass only sea level changes over time in ASCII format. The temporal coverage extends from April 2002 to present, and will be updated in forward data stream with nominal bi-monthly latency.
The datasets are described and discoverable via the Earthdata catalog. The dataset information pages also provide access to the technical documentation, the GRACE/GRACE-FO User Handbook, and guidance on how to cite the data.
DOIs
- TELLUS_GRAC-GRFO_MASCON_CRI_GRID_RL06.1_V3 (10.5067/TEMSC-3JC63)
- TELLUS_GRAC-GRFO_MASCON_GRID_RL06.1_V3 (10.5067/TEMSC-3MJ63)
- OCEAN_MASS_TELLUS_MASCON_CRI_TIME_SERIES_RL06.1_V3 (10.5067/TEMSC-OT613)
- GREENLAND_MASS_TELLUS_MASCON_CRI_TIME_SERIES_RL06.1_V3 (10.5067/TEMSC-GT613)
- ANTARCTICA_MASS_TELLUS_MASCON_CRI_TIME_SERIES_RL06.1_V3 (10.5067/TEMSC-AT613)
Citations
Watkins, M. M., D. N. Wiese, D.-N. Yuan, C. Boening, F. W. Landerer (2015), Improved methods for observing Earth's time variable mass distribution with GRACE, JGR Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011547
Wiese, D. N., F. W. Landerer, and M. M. Watkins (2016), Quantifying and reducing leakage errors in the JPL RL05M GRACE mascon solution, Water Resour. Res., 52, 7490–7502, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019344
Please email the PO.DAAC User Services Team with any questions, or visit PO.DAAC on Earthdata Forum.