LUH-GRACE2018

A New Time Series of Monthly Gravity Field Solutions from GRACE

verfasst von
Igor Koch, Jakob Flury, Majid Naeimi, Akbar Shabanloui
Abstract

In this contribution, we present the LUH-GRACE2018 time series of monthly gravity field solutions covering the period January 2003–March 2016. The solutions are obtained from GRACE K-Band Range Rate (KBRR) measurements as main observations. The monthly solutions are computed using the in-house developed GRACE-SIGMA software. The processing is based on dynamic orbit and gravity field determination using variational equations and consists of two main steps. In the first step, 3-hourly orbital arcs of the two satellites and the state transition and sensitivity matrices are dynamically integrated using a modified Gauss-Jackson integrator. In this step, initial state vectors and 3D accelerometer bias parameters are adjusted using GRACE Level-1B reduced-dynamic positions as observations. In the second step, normal equations are accumulated and the normalized spherical harmonic coefficients up to degree and order 80 are estimated along with arc-wise initial states, accelerometer biases and empirical KBRR parameters. Here KBRR measurements are used as main observations and reduced-dynamic positions are introduced to solve for the low frequency coefficients. In terms of error degree standard deviations as well as Equivalent Water Heights (EWH), our gravity field solutions agree well with RL05 solutions of CSR, GFZ and JPL.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Erdmessung
Typ
Aufsatz in Konferenzband
Seiten
67-75
Anzahl der Seiten
9
Publikationsdatum
11.03.2020
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Computer in den Geowissenschaften, Geophysik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2020_92 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.15488/4461 (Zugang: Offen)
 

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