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Stepwise iterative enhanced destriping of GRACE/GRACE-FO data for improving global water mass estimation

Peng, Zhenran, Wang, Linsong, Du, Jinsong, and Chen, Chao, 2025. Stepwise iterative enhanced destriping of GRACE/GRACE-FO data for improving global water mass estimation. Geophysical Journal International, 243(1):ggaf336, doi:10.1093/gji/ggaf336.

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@ARTICLE{2025GeoJI.243..336P,
       author = {{Peng}, Zhenran and {Wang}, Linsong and {Du}, Jinsong and {Chen}, Chao},
        title = "{Stepwise iterative enhanced destriping of GRACE/GRACE-FO data for improving global water mass estimation}",
      journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
     keywords = {Satellite geodesy, Satellite gravity, Time variable gravity, Spatial analysis},
         year = 2025,
        month = oct,
       volume = {243},
       number = {1},
          eid = {ggaf336},
        pages = {ggaf336},
     abstract = "{The time-variable gravity field obtained from the Gravity Recovery and
        Climate Experiment/Follow-On (GRACE/GRACE-FO) satellites has
        been successfully used to detect global water mass changes over
        the past two decades. However, the north{\textendash}south
        striping noise in the GRACE spherical harmonic (SH) solution
        limits their effectiveness. Efforts to suppress this noise and
        achieve a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) continue with
        various product releases, but there is still a great need for
        improvement. This study presents a new destriping method,
        Gaussian filtering combined with bi-dimensional variational mode
        decomposition (GBVMD), which employs a stepwise enhancing
        framework combining Gaussian filtering with bi-dimensional
        variational mode decomposition (BVMD). The methodological
        breakthrough comes from two innovations: First, it employs
        adaptive scale decomposition by dynamically adjusting the radius
        of the Gaussian filter in conjunction with BVMD reconstruction,
        effectively reducing noise across multiple scales. Second, it
        features a dual-decision optimization strategy that integrates
        SNR-driven mode reconstruction and iterative termination,
        thereby maximizing the SNR while adapting to the specific
        characteristics of the noise. In simulations, the GBVMD
        outperforms the five other filters in reducing noise and keeping
        signals, achieving an improvement in SNR by at least 19 per
        cent, and reductions in root mean square error and mean absolute
        error by at least 14 and 11 per cent, respectively. When applied
        to GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-2 SH solutions, GBVMD led to a higher
        SNR with an improvement of at least 12 per cent compared to
        other filters. The GBVMD-filtered SH data showed strong
        consistency with three Level-3 Mascon solutions across 183 river
        basins. Comparable results were also found in polar regions,
        validated by altimetry data. Furthermore, we effectively
        corrected the leakage errors for two examples in the Caspian Sea
        and the Great Lakes, demonstrating the advantages of GBVMD-
        filtered SH over the Mascons for signal re-analysis. We
        recommend GBVMD for further applications, especially in specific
        regions such as ocean areas and other satellite missions
        requiring similar destriping approaches.}",
          doi = {10.1093/gji/ggaf336},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025GeoJI.243..336P},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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