Daily GRACE satellite data evaluate short-term hydro-meteorological fluxes from global atmospheric reanalyses.

ABSTRACT: Changes in terrestrial water storage as observed by the satellite gravity mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) represent a new and completely independent way to constrain the net flux imbalance in atmospheric reanalyses. In this study daily GRACE gravity field changes are used for the first time to investigate high-frequency hydro-meteorological fluxes over the continents. Band-pass filtered water fluxes are derived from GRACE water storage time series by first applying a numerical differentiation filter and subsequent high-pass filtering to isolate fluxes at periods between 5 and 30 days corresponding to typical time-scales of weather system persistence at moderate latitudes. By comparison with the latest atmospheric reanalysis ERA5 of the European Centre for Medium-Ran

SUBMITTER: Eicker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature