Title
Akaike's Bayesian Information Criterion for the Joint Inversion of Terrestrial Water Storage Using GPS Vertical Displacements, GRACE and GLDAS in Southwest China.
Abstract
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) techniques, such as GPS, can be used to accurately record vertical crustal movements induced by seasonal terrestrial water storage (TWS) variations. Conversely, the TWS data could be inverted from GPS-observed vertical displacement based on the well-known elastic loading theory through the Tikhonov regularization (TR) or the Helmert variance component estimation (HVCE). To complement a potential non-uniform spatial distribution of GPS sites and to improve the quality of inversion procedure, herein we proposed in this study a novel approach for the TWS inversion by jointly supplementing GPS vertical crustal displacements with minimum usage of external TWS-derived displacements serving as pseudo GPS sites, such as from satellite gravimetry (e.g., Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, GRACE) or from hydrological models (e.g., Global Land Data Assimilation System, GLDAS), to constrain the inversion. In addition, Akaike's Bayesian Information Criterion (ABIC) was employed during the inversion, while comparing with TR and HVCE to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. Despite the deterioration of the model fitness, our results revealed that the introduction of GRACE or GLDAS data as constraints during the joint inversion effectively reduced the uncertainty and bias by 42% and 41% on average, respectively, with significant improvements in the spatial boundary of our study area. In general, the ABIC with GRACE or GLDAS data constraints displayed an optimal performance in terms of model fitness and inversion performance, compared to those of other GPS-inferred TWS methodologies reported in published studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/e21070664
ENTROPY
Keywords
Field
DocType
terrestrial water storage inversion,GPS,GRACE,GLDAS,Akaike's Bayesian information criterion
Tikhonov regularization,Bayesian information criterion,Akaike information criterion,Inversion (meteorology),Global Positioning System,GNSS applications,Data assimilation,Statistics,Vertical displacement,Geodesy,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
7
1099-4300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
hok fok123.13
Hok Sum Fok275.78
Robert Tenzer300.68
Qiang Chen411.38
Xiuwan Chen53318.04