Instrument data simulations for GRACE  Follow-on: observation and noise models

Darbeheshti, Neda; Wegener, Henry; Müller, Vitali; Naeimi, Majid; Heinzel, Gerhard; Hewitson, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-833-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-833-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-833-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Review article

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17 Nov 2017

Review article |

| 17 Nov 2017

Instrument data simulations for GRACE Follow-on: observation and noise models

Neda Darbeheshti, Henry Wegener, Vitali Müller, Majid Naeimi, Gerhard Heinzel, and Martin Hewitson

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Instrument Data Simulations for GRACE Follow-on: Observation and Noise Models N. Darbeheshti, H. Wegener, V. Müller, M. Naeimi, G. Heinzel, and M. Hewitson https://doi.org/10.22027/AMDC2

Short summary

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has yielded data on the Earth's gravity field to monitor temporal changes for more than 15 years. GRACE Follow-on will be the first satellite mission to use inter-satellite laser interferometry in space to measure the distance variations between two satellites caused by the Earth's global gravitational field. This paper describes the scientific basis and technical approaches used to simulate the GRACE Follow-on instrument data.