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- GRACE GRAVITY FIELD SOLUTIONS USING THE DIFFERENTIAL GRAVIMETRY
APPROACH M. Weigelt, W. Keller
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- Geophysical implications of the gravity field Geodesy
Continental Hydrology Oceano- graphy Glacio- logy Atmosphere Tides
Earth core Solid Earth Geoid 2
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- Geophysical implications of the gravity field 3 ESA
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- Observation system 4 GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment Initial orbit height: ~ 485 km Inclination: ~ 89 Key
technologies: GPS receiver Accelerometer K-Band Ranging System
Observed quantity: range range rate CSR, UTexas
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- Gravity field modelling 5 with gravitational constant times
mass of the Earth radius of the Earth spherical coordinates of the
calculation point Legendre function degree, order (unknown)
spherical harmonic coefficients
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- Spectral representations 6 Spherical harmonic spectrum Degree
RMS
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- Outline GRACE geometry Solution strategies Variational
equations Differential gravimetry approach What about the
Next-Generation-GRACE? 7
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- Geometry of the GRACE system
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- 9 B A Differentiation Integration Rummel et al. 1978
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- Solution Strategies
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- Solution strategies 11 Variational equationsIn-situ
observations Classical (Reigber 1989, Tapley 2004) Celestial
mechanics approach (Beutler et al. 2010, Jggi 2007) Short-arc
method (Mayer-Grr 2006) Energy Integral (Han 2003, Ramillien et al.
2010) Differential gravimetry (Liu 2010) LoS Gradiometry (Keller
and Sharifi 2005) Numerical integration Analytical integration
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- Equation of motion 12 Basic equation: Newtons equation of
motion where are all gravitational and non-gravitational disturbing
forces In the general case: ordinary second order non-linear
differential equation Double integration yields:
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- Linearization 13 For the solution, linearization using a Taylor
expansion is necessary: Types of partial derivatives: initial
position initial velocity residual gravity field coefficients
additional parameter Homogeneous solution Inhomogeneous
solution
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- Homogeneous solution 14 Homogeneous solution needs the partial
derivatives: Derivation by integration of the variational equation
Double integration !
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- Inhomogeneous solution (one variant) 15 Solution of the
inhomogeneous part by the method of the variation of the constant
(Beutler 2006): with being the columns of the matrix of the
variational equation of the homogeneous solution at each epoch.
Estimation of by solving the equation system at each epoch:
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- Application to GRACE 16 In case of GRACE, the observables are
range and range rate: Chain rule needs to be applied:
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- Limitations additional parameters compensate errors in the
initial conditions counteract accumulation of errors outlier
detection difficult limited application to local areas high
computational effort difficult estimation of corrections to the
initial conditions in case of GRACE (twice the number of unknowns,
relative observation) 17
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- In-situ observations: Differential gravimetry approach
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- Instantaneous relative reference frame 19 PositionVelocity
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- In-situ observation 20 Range observables: Multiplication with
unit vectors: GRACE
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- Relative motion between two epochs 21 absolute motion
neglected! Epoch 1 Epoch 2 K-Band GPS
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- Limitation 22 Combination of highly precise K-Band observations
with comparably low accurate GPS relative velocity
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- Residual quantities Orbit fitting using the homogeneous
solution of the variational equation with a known a priori gravity
field Avoiding the estimation of empirical parameters by using
short arcs 23 true orbit GPS-observations estimated orbit
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- Residual quantities 24 ratio 1:2 ratio 25:1
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- Approximated solution 25
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- Next generation GRACE
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- 27 New type of intersatellite distance measurement based on
laser interferometry Noise reduction by a factor 10 expected M.
Dehne, Quest
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- Solution for next generation GRACE 28
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- Variational equations for velocity term Reduction to residual
quantity insufficient Modeling the velocity term by variational
equations: Application of the method of the variations of the
constants 29
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- Results 30 Only minor improvements by incorporating the
estimation of corrections to the spherical harmonic coefficients
due to the velocity term Limiting factor is the orbit fit to the
GPS positions additional estimation of corrections to the initial
conditions necessary
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- Summary The primary observables of the GRACE system (range
& range rate) are connected to gravity field quantities through
variational equations (numerical integration) or through in-situ
observations (analytical integration). Variational equations pose a
high computational effort. In-situ observations demand the
combination of K-band and GPS information. Next generation GRACE
instruments pose a challenge to existing solution strategies.
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