Definition
Mass change trend. Linear or nonlinear change rate in mass over a certain time span.
Introduction
Gravity field time series derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project (e.g., Tapley et al., 2004) substantially upgraded our knowledge about mass redistribution in the Earth’s system on both regional and global scales. The GRACE project is a joint partnership between the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)); official GRACE websites are maintained by the Center for Space Research (CSR) of the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL , http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov), and the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam (http://www-app2.gfz-potsdam.de/pbl/op/grace). During the last decade, the satellite data have frequently been exploited to detect and quantify land surface hydrology variability, ice mass...
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Baur, O. (2014). Mass Change Trends from GRACE Gravity Field Time Series. In: Grafarend, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geodesy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02370-0_54-1
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