Measuring surface water from space

DE Alsdorf, E Rodríguez… - Reviews of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Surface fresh water is essential for life, yet we have surprisingly poor knowledge of the
spatial and temporal dynamics of surface freshwater discharge and changes in storage …

Accelerated West Antarctic ice mass loss continues to outpace East Antarctic gains

C Harig, FJ Simons - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
While multiple data sources have confirmed that Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating
rate, different measurement techniques estimate the details of its geographically highly …

Improvement of global hydrological models using GRACE data

A Güntner - Surveys in geophysics, 2008 - Springer
After about 6 years of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission
operation, an unprecedented global data set on the spatio-temporal variations of the Earth's …

Regional gravity modeling in terms of spherical base functions

M Schmidt, M Fengler, T Mayer-Gürr, A Eicker… - Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
This article provides a survey on modern methods of regional gravity field modeling on the
sphere. Starting with the classical theory of spherical harmonics, we outline the transition …

Assessment of age, origin, and sustainability of fossil aquifers: A geochemical and remote sensing-based approach

M Sultan, NC Sturchio, S Alsefry, MK Emil, M Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
An integrated approach was developed to assess the sustainability, origin, age, evolution,
and groundwater potential of large fossil aquifers using the Mega Aquifer System …

GRAMAT: A comprehensive Matlab toolbox for estimating global mass variations from GRACE satellite data

W Feng - Earth Science Informatics, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we robustly analyze the noise reduction methods for processing spherical
harmonic (SH) coefficient data products collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate …

Solving or resolving global tomographic models with spherical wavelets, and the scale and sparsity of seismic heterogeneity

FJ Simons, I Loris, G Nolet… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We propose a class of spherical wavelet bases for the analysis of geophysical models and
for the tomographic inversion of global seismic data. Its multiresolution character allows for …

Comparing satellite derived precipitation datasets using the Hillslope River Routing (HRR) model in the Congo River Basin

RE Beighley, RL Ray, Y He, H Lee… - Hydrological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, three satellite derived precipitation datasets (TRMM, CMORPH, PERSIANN)
are used to drive the Hillslope River Routing (HRR) model in the Congo Basin. The …

[PDF][PDF] Gravity field refinement by radial basis functions from in-situ satellite data

A Eicker - 2008 - Citeseer
In this thesis, an integrated approach is developed for the regional refinement of global
gravity field solutions. The analysis concepts are tailored to the in-situ type character of the …

Regional gravity field refinement for (quasi-) geoid determination based on spherical radial basis functions in Colorado

Q Liu, M Schmidt, L Sánchez, M Willberg - Journal of geodesy, 2020 - Springer
This study presents a solution of the '1 cm Geoid Experiment'(Colorado Experiment) using
spherical radial basis functions (SRBFs). As the only group using SRBFs among the …