Table 2 The data sets used for comparison purposes.

From: Estimating GRACE terrestrial water storage anomaly using an improved point mass solution

Data

Center

Resolution

Reference

Computed*

Re-sampled

CSR-M

Centre for Space Research

~12,400 km2

0.25° × 0.25°

Save et al.9

GSFC-M

Goddard Space Flight Center

~12,390 km2

0.5° × 0.5°

Loomis et al.13

JPL-M

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

~87,003 km2

0.5° × 0.5°

Watkins et al.10

GravIS

German Research Centre for Geosciences

1.0° × 1.0°

—

Boergens et al.15

Basins

Global Runoff Data Centre

—

—

GRDC57

  1. The GRACE solutions used for comparisons are the mascon data sets at CSR, GSFC and JPL, and GravIS at GFZ based on the COST-G Level-2b data. The GRDC’s major river basins of the world. (*) The parameters of the respective mascon products were estimated at compartments with that area values.
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