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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 2018

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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

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]

2024. "Nonstationarity in the global terrestrial water cycle and its interlinkages in the Anthropocene.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (45): [10.1073/pnas.2403707121] [Journal Article/Letter]