If you believe the GRACE/-FO drought maps and water storage data are too coarse in resolution, read this

First comprehensive review paper on assimilating GRACE/-FO terrestrial water storage data into hydrological and land surface models - by Anne Springer @aquasong.bsky.social et al, just accepted for HESS
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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Background precipitation over Europe, and the river basins used for evaluation in the paper.

This is new. Francis da Silva Lopes (PhD student @unibonn.bsky.social @crc1502-detect.bsky.social) demonstrates how sea surface temp forcing and moisture transport in the ICON atmosphere model can be evaluated with precip, dicharge and GRACE observations. Just published: doi.org/10.1175/JHM-...

#climatescience #satellite #innovation #gravimetry #hydrology #climatechange #earthenergyimbalance | Magellium 🌍 A Major Milestone for Europe’s Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM)! European Space Agency - ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level (CM25) has officially approved the implementation of NGGM, marking ...

🚀 NGGM approved — exciting step for next-gen satellite gravimetry!

Proud that #CRC1502 contributes to ESA’s #SING project (incl. work by our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social & our member @aquasong.bsky.social) to advance science readiness for NGGM.

#Geodesy

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📡 We proudly present the #CRC1502 DETECT Geonetwork platform. It is an open-access platform of geospatial data across all DETECT subprojects that follows FAIR principle. Built by Z03 subproject (Farzane Mohseni & Jan-Henrik Haunert).

🌐 detect-z03.geoinformation.net
🎥 www.youtube.com/@DETECT_GeoN...

👩‍🎓 Wanxue Zhu has successfully defended her PhD at the @uni-goettingen.de — the first PhD graduate of #CRC1502 DETECT! Her research on developing ELIAD and ECIRA datasets fills key #irrigation area data gaps across #Europe.

S-6 MF radiation pressure

Of all 12,000 satellites in orbit, the one with the highest requirement for precise orbit determination is Sentinel-6 MF. Since it is a reference mission for measuring sea level change. Kristin Vielberg has just published an improved force model for S-6 MF: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Field work is beautiful.

40yr trend in TWSA, red = drying (-up to 6mm/yr) blue = wetting (up to 6mm/yr)

Our PhD student Charlotte Hacker (@crc1502-detect.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social) published a 40yr record of total water storage anomalies (TWSA), similar to GRACE but from 1984 on. She combined SLR, DORIS and climate data in a new method.
zenodo.org/records/1582...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...

Neutral density (left) and ion density (right) at 200km altitude simulated with TIE-GCM on April 10, 2010

We have a new doctor. Congrats to Armin Corbin for defending his PhD work on numerical simulation of mass density in the upper Earth's atmosphere with data assimilation at @unibonn.bsky.social
(bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...).

Final review paper of the GROCE team on the atmosphere-land-ice-ocean system around the 79°N glacier by Torsten Kanzow et al. in tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

The change in height of the different GPS stations (red = rising; blue = sinking). The rise was particularly pronounced in the drought between 2015 and 2019. - Copyright Image: AG Kusche/University of Bonn

Climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean: According to a study by the University of Bonn, droughts caused the country to rise by six millimeters between 2012 and 2020. ...
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Read our brief news article about the watercycle/GEWEX perspective of upcoming gravity satellite missions

Excellent paper, demonstrates the importance of land cover composition (shares) and configuration (spatial arrangemen) on climate

What is the significance? The satellites did not fly over the disaster area in 2021. But every year they pass hundreds of similar and bigger extreme events, many over tropical ocean and/or regions where we don't have radar networks and good NWP models. All this adds to the LRI noise.

Precip accumulated for 10hours during the event, and the satellite overpasses

Master student Magda Kracheletz shows in agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... how the GRACE-FO laser ranging instrument would have observed the devastating 2021 Ahr Valley water masses, even during atmospheric convection prior to flooding.