Evaluation and validation of mascon recovery using GRACE KBRR data with independent mass flux estimates in the Mississippi Basin |
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Authors: | S Klosko D Rowlands S Luthcke F Lemoine D Chinn M Rodell |
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Affiliation: | (1) SGT Inc., 7701 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA;(2) Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA;(3) Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA |
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Abstract: | The direct recovery of surface mass anomalies using GRACE KBRR data processed in regional solutions provides mass variation
estimates with 10-day temporal resolution. The approach undertaken herein uses a tailored orbit estimation strategy based
solely on the KBRR data and directly estimates mass anomalies from the GRACE data. We introduce a set of temporal and spatial
correlation constraints to enable high resolution mass flux estimates. The Mississippi Basin, with its well understood surface
hydrological modelling available from the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS), which uses advanced land surface modeling
and data assimilation techniques, and a wealth of groundwater data, provides an opportunity to quantitatively compare GRACE
estimates of the mass flux in the entire hydrological column with those available from independent and reliable sources. Evaluating
GRACE’s performance is dependent on the accuracy ascribed to the hydrological information, which in and of itself is a complex
challenge (Rodell in Hydrogeol J, doi:, 2007). Nevertheless, the Mississippi Basin is one of the few regions having a large hydrological signal that can support
a meaningful GRACE comparison on the spatial scale resolved by GRACE. The isolation of the hydrological signal is dependent
on the adequacy of the forward mass flux modeling for tides and atmospheric pressure variations. While these models have non-uniform
global performance they are excellent in the Mississippi Basin. Through comparisons with the independent hydrology, we evaluate
the effect on the solution of changing correlation times and distances in the constraints, altering the parameter recovery
for areas external to the Mississippi Basin, and changing the relative strength of the constraints with respect to the KBRR
data. The accuracy and stability of the mascon solutions are thereby assessed, especially with regard to the constraints used
to stabilize the solution. We show that the mass anomalies, as represented by surface layer of water within regional cells
have accuracy estimates of ±2–3 cm on par with the best hydrological estimates and consistent with our accuracy estimates
for GRACE mass anomaly estimates. These solutions are shown to be very stable, especially for the recovery of semi-annual
and longer period trends, where for example, the phase agreement for the dominant annual signal agrees at the 10-day level
of resolution provided by GRACE. This validation confirms that mascons provide critical environmental data records for a wide
range of applications including monitoring ground water mass changes. |
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