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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021908
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[1] The GRACE mission is designed to monitor mass flux on the Earth's surface at one month and high spatial resolution through the estimation of monthly gravity fields. Although this approach has been largely successful, information at submonthly time scales can be lost or even aliased through the estimation of static monthly parameters. Through an analysis of the GRACE data residuals, we show that the fundamental temporal and spatial resolution of the GRACE data is 10 days and 400 km. We present an approach similar in concept to altimetric methods that recovers submonthly mass flux at a high spatial resolution. Using 4degrees x 4degrees blocks at 10-day intervals, we estimate the mass of surplus or deficit water over a 52degrees x 60degrees grid centered on the Amazon basin for July 2003. We demonstrate that the recovered signals are coherent and correlate well with the expected hydrological signal.
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