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Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO)

GRACE-FO continues the work of the GRACE mission, tracking mass change on the Earth, in the cryosphere, the oceans, with terrestrial water storage on land and in the solid Earth.

Launch Date
April 2018
Class
Flight Project
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GRACE-FO continues the work of the GRACE mission, tracking mass change on the Earth, in the cryosphere, the oceans, with terrestrial water storage on land and in the solid Earth.

Related Publications

2026. "A review of current best practices and future directions in assimilating GRACE/-FO terrestrial water storage data into numerical models.", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 30 (4): 985-1022 [10.5194/hess-30-985-2026] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Inconsistencies in GRACE‐Based Groundwater Storage Estimation—A Call for a Proper Use of Land Surface Models.", Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (19): e2025GL119197 [10.1029/2025gl119197] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Terrestrial water storage in 2024.", Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 6 (4): 261-263 [Full Text] [10.1038/s43017-025-00659-w] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Deltaic freshwater scarcity driven by unsustainable groundwater-fed irrigation.", Nature Sustainability, [10.1038/s41893-025-01566-0] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Optimized J2 Recovery for Multi-Decadal Geophysical Studies.", Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (7): e2024GL114472 [https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114472] [Journal Article/Letter]