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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
May 22, 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. "Two decades of human- and climate-induced groundwater storage shifts in Brazil.", Science Advances, 12 (23): eaee0266 [10.1126/sciadv.aee0266] [Journal Article/Letter]

2026. "Revisiting the application of variable infiltration capacity (VIC) model in the Colorado River Basin using SMAP and GRACE.", Scientific Reports, 16 (1): 15890 [10.1038/s41598-026-47430-9] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2022"].", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104 (9): S63-S64 [10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2023"].", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (8): S67-S68 [10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0116.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2025. "Groundwater and terrestrial water storage [in "State of the Climate in 2024"].", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106 (8): S73-S74 [10.1175/2025BAMSStateoftheClimate.1] [Journal Article/Letter]