Title
Evaluating Gravimetric Polar Motion Excitation Estimates from the RL06 GRACE Monthly-Mean Gravity Field Models.
Abstract
Over the last 15 years, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has provided measurements of temporal changes in mass redistribution at and within the Earth that affect polar motion. The newest generation of GRACE temporal models, are evaluated by conversion into the equatorial components of hydrological polar motion excitation and compared with the residuals of observed polar motion excitation derived from geodetic measurements of the pole coordinates. We analyze temporal variations of hydrological excitation series and decompose them into linear trends and seasonal and non-seasonal changes, with a particular focus on the spectral bands with periods of 1000-3000, 450-1000, 100-450, and 60-100 days. Hydrological and reduced geodetic excitation series are also analyzed in four separated time periods which are characterized by different accuracy of GRACE measurements. The level of agreement between hydrological and reduced geodetic excitation depends on the frequency band considered and is highest for interannual changes with periods of 1000-3000 days. We find that the CSR RL06, ITSG 2018 and CNES RL04 GRACE solutions provide the best agreement with reduced geodetic excitation for most of the oscillations investigated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12060930
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
GRACE,Earth rotation,polar motion excitation,hydrological angular momentum
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Justyna Sliwinska102.03
Jolanta Nastula202.03
Henryk Dobslaw3172.44
Robert Dill400.34