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Combined Adjustment of GRACE and Geodetic Observations of Vertical Crustal Motion in the Great Lakes Region
We combine GRACE-derived rates of vertical crustal motion, joint water gauge and satellite altimetry and GPS vertical velocities in the Great Lakes...
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The surface radiation budget over South America in a set of regional climate models from the CLARIS-LPB project
The performance of seven regional climate models in simulating the radiation and heat fluxes at the surface over South America (SA) is evaluated....
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An estimate of the influence of loading effects on tectonic velocities in the Pyrenees
Surface displacements due to temporal changes in environmental mass redistributions are observable in the coordinate time series of many Global...
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Impacts of land process on the onset and evolution of Asian summer monsoon in the NCEP climate forecast system
Impacts of land models and initial land conditions (ICs) on the Asian summer monsoon, especially its onset, were investigated using the NCEP Climate...
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Spin-up behavior of soil moisture content over East Asia in a land surface model
This study presents an investigation of the spin-up behavior of soil moisture content (SMC) and evapotranspiration (ET) in an offline Noah land...
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Decadal variations of land surface temperature anomalies observed over the Tibetan Plateau by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) from 1987 to 2008
In this paper, we analyze the standardized anomalies of land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I)...
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High-frequency signal and noise estimates of CSR GRACE RL04
A sliding window technique is used to create daily-sampled Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) solutions with the same background...
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A return to wet conditions over Africa: 1995–2010
Climatic trends over sub-Saharan Africa are described using major river flows, European Community Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Coupled Forecast...
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An assessment of summer sensible heat flux on the Tibetan Plateau from eight data sets
The eight datasets of the summer (June–August) surface sensible heat (SH) flux over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are compared on the time scales of the...
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Challenges and Opportunities in GRACE-Based Groundwater Storage Assessment and Management: An Example from Yemen
Sustainable management of groundwater resources is often hampered by information asymmetries between abstracters and managers. At the same time,...
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Examining evapotranspiration trends in Africa
Surface temperatures are projected to increase 3–4°C over much of Africa by the end of the 21st century. Precipitation projections are less certain,...
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Signals of Mass Redistribution at the South African Gravimeter Site SAGOS
The superconducting gravimeter (SG) operating at the South African Geodynamic Observatory Sutherland (SAGOS) is one of the few instruments installed...
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Multi-Sensor Monitoring of Low-Degree Gravitational Changes
Earth gravity change is caused by mass redistribution within the Earth system, including air and water redistribution in the atmosphere, ocean, land,...
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Impacts of climate gradients on the vegetation phenology of major land use types in Central Asia (1981–2008)
Time-series of land surface phenology (LSP) data offer insights about vegetation growth patterns. They can be generated by exploiting the temporal...
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Retrieval of Large-Scale Hydrological Signals in Africa from GRACE Time-Variable Gravity Fields
Since its launch in April 2002, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission is recording the Earth’s time-variable gravity field with...
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Land Water Storage Changes from Ground and Space Geodesy: First Results from the GHYRAF (Gravity and Hydrology in Africa) Experiment
This paper is devoted to the first results from the GHYRAF (Gravity and Hydrology in Africa) experiment conducted since 2008 in West Africa and is...
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Estimating geoid height change in North America: past, present and future
The forthcoming GRAV-D gravimetric geoid model over the United States is to be updated regularly to account for changes in geoid height. Its baseline...
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Microgravity
Gravity survey data can provide quantitative information on changes in the mass of water within an aquifer, which has obvious water resources value....
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Impact of transient groundwater storage on the discharge of Himalayan rivers
In the course of the transfer of precipitation into rivers, water is temporarily stored in reservoirs with different residence times
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Separation of global time-variable gravity signals into maximally independent components
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) products provide valuable information about total water storage variations over the whole globe....