N: 89.5 S: -89.5 E: 180 W: -180
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The monthly land mass grids contain water mass anomalies given as equivalent water thickness derived from GRACE & GRACE-FO time-variable gravity observations during the specified timespan, and relative to the specified time-mean reference period. The Equivalent water thickness represents the total terrestrial water storage anomalies from soil moisture, snow, surface water (incl. rivers, lakes, reservoirs etc.), as well as groundwater and aquifers. A glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) correction has been applied, and standard corrections for geocenter (degree-1), C20 (degree-20) and C30 (degree-30) are incorporated. Post-processing filters have been applied to reduce correlated errors. Version 04 (v04) of the terrestrial water storage data uses updated and consistent C20 and Geocenter corrections (i.e., Technical Notes TN-14 and TN-13), as well as an ellipsoidal correction to account for the non-spherical shape of the Earth when mapping gravity anomalies to surface mass change. Data grids are provided in ASCII/netCDF/GeoTIFF formats. For the RL06 version, all GRACE products in the ASCII format have adopted the YAML encoding header, which is in full compliance with the PODAAC metadata best practices.
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| Title | Year Sort ascending | Author | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| A daily and 500 m coupled evapotranspiration and gross primary production product across China during 20002020 | He, Shaoyang, Zhang, Yongqiang, Ma, Ning, Tian, Jing, Kong, Dongdong, Liu, Changming | Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Terrestrial Water Storage, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar) | |
| Relic Groundwater and Prolonged Drought Confound Interpretations of | Moran, Brendan J., Boutt, David F., McKnight, Sarah V., Jenckes, Jordan, Munk, Lee Ann, Corkran, Daniel, Kirshen, Alexander | Terrestrial Water Storage | |
| Spatiotemporal variations of evapotranspiration in Amazonia using the wavelet phase difference analysis | Zhang, Juan, Feng, Ziyang, Niu, Jie, Melack, John M., Zhang, Jin, Qiu, Han, Hu, Bill X., Riley, William J. | Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Shortwave Radiation, Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Terrestrial Water Storage | |
| Tropical methane emissions explain large fraction of recent changes in global atmospheric methane growth rate | Feng, Liang, Palmer, Paul I., Zhu, Sihong, Parker, Robert J., Liu, Yi | Terrestrial Water Storage | |
| Studying recent hydroclimatic variability in Madagascar despite deficient measurement networks: use of CHIRPS and GRACE data at the scale of the ... | Bigot, Sylvain, Dumas, Dominique, Brou, Telesphore Y., Ramboarison, Rivo, Razanaka, Samuel, Philippon, Nathalie | Terrestrial Water Storage |