Improved Non-tidal Atmospheric and Oceanic De-Aliasing 141
• Details on the operational RL04 products as well as on the precursor releases can be found in
the AOD1B Product Description Document for Product Releases 01 to 04 (Rev. 3.1, April 13,
2007) which can be downloaded at ISDC.
• A quality monitoring page for the period 2001 until present is available at http://www-app2.gfz-
potsdam.de/pb1/op/grace/results.
References
Biancale R, Bode A (2006) Mean annual and seasonal atmospheric tide models based on 3-hourly
and 6-hourly ECMWF surface pressure data. Scientific Technical Report STR06/01, Deutsches
GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany.
Boy JP, Chao BF (2005) Precise evaluation of atmospheric loading effects on Earth’s time-variable
gravity field. J. Geophys. Res. 110(B), doi: 10.1029/2002JB002333.
Carrère L, Lyard F (2003) Modeling the barotropic response of the global ocean to atmospheric
wind and pressure forcing comparisons with observations. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(6), 1275,
doi: 10.1029/2002GL016473.
Dobslaw H (2007) Modellierung der allgemeinen ozeanischen Dynamik zur Korrektur
und Interpretation von Satellitendaten. Scientific Technical Report 07/10, Deutsches
GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, 113 pp.
Dobslaw H, T homas M (2005) Atmospheric induced oceanic tides from ECMWF forecasts.
Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L10615.
Dobslaw H, Thomas M (2007a) Impact of river run-off on global ocean mass redistribution.
Geophys. J. Int. 168(2), 527–532.
Dobslaw H, Thomas M (2007b) Periodic and transient short-term mass variations in numerical
simulations of atmosphere-ocean dynamics. Geotechnol. Sci. Rep. 11, 122–126.
Döll P, Kaspar F, Lehner B (2003) A global hydrological model for deriving water availability
indicators: Model tuning and validation. J. Hydrol. 270, 105–134.
Flechtner F, Schmidt R, Meyer U (2006) De-aliasing of short-term atmospheric and oceanic
mass variations for GRACE. In: Flury J, Rummel R, Reigber C, Rothacher M, Boedecker
G, Schreiber U (eds.), Observation of the Earth System from Space, ISBN 3-540-29520-8,
Springer, Berlin, pp. 83–97.
Flechtner F (2007) AOD1B Product Description Document. GRACE 327-750, rev. 3.1, Deutsches
GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, 43 pp.
Flechtner F, Thomas M, König R (2008) A long-term model for non-tidal atmospheric and oceanic
mass redistributions and its implications on LAGEOS-derived solutions of Earth’s oblateness.
Scientific Technical Report 08/12, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany,
24 pp.
Greatbatch RJ (1994) A note on the representation of steric sea level in models that conserve
volume rather than mass. J. Geophys. Res. 99(C6), 12767–12771.
Hellerman S, Rosenstein M (1983) Normal monthly wind stress over the world ocean with error
estimates. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 13, 1093–1104.
Hirose N, Fukomori I, Zlotnicki V, Ponte R (2001) High-frequency barotropic response to atmo-
spheric disturbances: Sensitivity to forcing, topography, and friction. J. Geophys. Res. 1006,
30987.
Kanzow T, Flechtner F, Chave A, Schmidt R, Schwintzer P, Send U (2005) Seasonal vari-
ation of ocean bottom pressure derived from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
(GRACE): Local validation and global patterns. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans) 110(C9), 9001,
doi: 10.1029/2004JC002772.
Kim J (2000) Simulation Study of a Low-Low Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking Mission. Technical
Report, University of Texas at Austin, TX.
Levitus S (1982) Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean. NOAA Professional Paper 13, US
Department of Commerce, 173 pp.