Satellite Gravity Field

GRACE Level-2 Processing Workflow

From Level-2 GSM spherical harmonics to gridded EWH products

Technical notes and reproducible workflow records for transforming GRACE and GRACE-FO Level-2 spherical harmonic solutions into physically consistent equivalent water height (EWH) products.

Processing Pipeline

From Level-2 harmonics to gridded EWH products

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01

Acquire

GRACE/GRACE-FO Level-2 GSM spherical harmonic coefficients

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02

Correct

Low-degree replacement, GIA correction, and mean-field removal

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03

Filter

De-striping, Gaussian/Fan/DDK routing, and HSAF experiments

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04

Synthesize

Convert spherical harmonics to gridded EWH anomalies

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05

Validate

Preview, basin averages, trends, and diagnostic products

Data Products

Gridded EWH preview

Gridded EWH

Monthly EWH anomalies on controlled grids with product metadata and diagnostics.

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Mascon and pipeline dashboard

Mascon Comparison

Independent reference products for checking spatial patterns and basin series.

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Filtering Notes

HSAF

Hankel-spectrum filtering for stripe suppression and signal preservation.

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Gaussian / Fan / DDK

Baseline filter families for reproducible comparison and product routing.

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