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Python tools for obtaining and working with Level-2 spherical harmonic coefficients from the NASA/DLR Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and the NASA/GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) missions

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References

T. C. Sutterley, I. Velicogna, and C.-W. Hsu, "Self‐Consistent Ice Mass Balance and Regional Sea Level From Time‐Variable Gravity", Earth and Space Science, 7, (2020). doi:10.1029/2019EA000860

T. C. Sutterley and I. Velicogna, "Improved estimates of geocenter variability from time-variable gravity and ocean model outputs", Remote Sensing, 11(18), 2108, (2019). doi:10.3390/rs11182108

J. Wahr, S. C. Swenson, and I. Velicogna, "Accuracy of GRACE mass estimates", Geophysical Research Letters, 33(6), L06401, (2006). doi: 10.1029/2005GL025305

J. Wahr, M. Molenaar, and F. Bryan, "Time variability of the Earth's gravity field: Hydrological and oceanic effects and their possible detection using GRACE", Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 103(B12), (1998). doi: 10.1029/98JB02844

D. Han and J. Wahr, "The viscoelastic relaxation of a realistically stratified earth, and a further analysis of postglacial rebound", Geophysical Journal International, 120(2), (1995). doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1995.tb01819.x

Data Repositories

T. C. Sutterley, I. Velicogna, and C.-W. Hsu, "Ice Mass and Regional Sea Level Estimates from Time-Variable Gravity", (2020). doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.9702338

T. C. Sutterley and I. Velicogna, "Geocenter Estimates from Time-Variable Gravity and Ocean Model Outputs", (2019). doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7388540

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The program homepage is:
https://github.com/tsutterley/read-GRACE-harmonics
A zip archive of the latest version is available directly at:
https://github.com/tsutterley/read-GRACE-harmonics/archive/main.zip

Disclaimer

This program is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas (UTCSR), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GeoForschungsZentrum, GFZ) or NASA. It is provided here for your convenience but with no guarantees whatsoever.

License

The content of this project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Attribution license and the source code is licensed under the MIT license.