Performance of Different Ensemble Kalman Filter Structures to Assimilate GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Estimates Into a High‐Resolution Hydrological Model: A Synthetic Study

GPS can be used to measure land motions induced by mass loading variations on the Earth’s surface. This paper presents an independent component analysis (ICA)-based inversion method that uses vertical GPS coordinate time series to estimate the change of terrestrial water storage (TWS) in the Sichuan-Yunnan region in China. The ICA method was applied to extract the hydrological deformation signals from the vertical coordinate time series of GPS stations in the Sichuan-Yunnan region from the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONC). These vertical deformation signals were then inverted to TWS variations. Comparative experiments were conducted based on Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data and a hydrological model for validation. The results demonstrate that the TWS changes estimated from GPS(ICA) deformations are highly correlated with the water variations derived from the GRACE data and hydrological model in Sichuan-Yunnan region. The TWS variations are overestimated by the vertical GPS observations the northwestern Sichuan-Yunnan region. The anomalies are likely caused by inaccurate atmospheric loading correction models or residual tropospheric errors in the region with high topographic variability and can be reduced by ICA preprocessing.

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Spatio-temporal variations in terrestrial water storage and its controlling factors in the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Hydrology Research ◽

10.2166/nh.2020.039 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yu Zhu ◽

Shiyin Liu ◽

Ying Yi ◽

Miaomiao Qi ◽

Wanqiu Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hydrological Model ◽

Water Storage ◽

Temporal Variations ◽

Controlling Factors ◽

Tibet Plateau ◽

Terrestrial Water Storage ◽

Terrestrial Water ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

Qinghai Tibet Plateau ◽

Level 2

Abstract The nature of the heterogeneity of terrestrial water storage (TWS) in the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (EQTP) is poorly understood because of the lack of validated datasets and the complex topographical conditions. In this study, monthly GRACE Level 2 Release 6 (RL06) products were employed to characterize TWS changes between April 2002 and August 2016 in the EQTP. Based on the observations and hydrological model output, the dominant factors contributing to the changes in TWS in sub-basins, and areas of TWS decrease and increase were analyzed systematically. We concluded that the TWS in the EQTP showed a slight decreasing trend from 2002 to 2016 with obvious spatial heterogeneity. The decrease in TWS may be attributed to the increase in evapotranspiration, which explains approximately 59% of the variations. In the region where a substantial decrease in TWS was observed, the trend primarily depended on evapotranspiration, and was certainly affected by glacial ablation. Moreover, the expansion of lakes supplemented by glaciers was the main cause of TWS change in the areas where TWS increased. A decrease in TWS mainly occurred in summer and was mainly due to the increase in evapotranspiration because of warming, an increase in wind speed, and a decrease in relative humidity.

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Identification of hydrological model parameters variation using ensemble Kalman filter

10.5194/hess-2015-407 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chao Deng ◽

Pan Liu ◽

Shenglian Guo ◽

Zejun Li ◽

Dingbao Wang

Keyword(s):

Kalman Filter ◽

Temporal Variation ◽

Ensemble Kalman Filter ◽

Water Conservation ◽

Hydrological Modeling ◽

Hydrological Model ◽

Storage Capacity ◽

Water Storage ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Water Storage Capacity

Abstract. Hydrological model parameters play an important role in the ability of model prediction. In a stationary content, parameters of hydrological models are treated as constants. However, model parameters may vary dynamically with time under climate change and human activities. The technique of ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is proposed to identify the temporal variation of parameters for a two-parameter monthly water balance model by assimilating the runoff observations, where one of state equations is that the model parameters should not change much within a short time period. Through a synthetic experiment, the proposed method is evaluated with various types of parameter variations including trend, abrupt change, and periodicity. The application of the method to the Wudinghe basin shows that the water storage capacity, a parameter in the model, has an apparent increasing trend during the period from 1958 to 2000. The identified temporal variation of water storage capacity is explained by land use and land cover changes due to soil and water conservation measurements. Whereas, the application to the Tongtianhe basin demonstrates that the parameter of water storage capacity has no significant variation during the simulation of 1982–2013, corresponding to the relatively stationary catchment characteristics. Additionally, the proposed method improves the performance of hydrological modeling, and provides an effective tool for quantifying temporal variation of model parameters.

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A time series assessment of terrestrial water storage and its relationship with hydro-meteorological factors in Gilgit-Baltistan region using GRACE observation and GLDAS-Noah model

SN Applied Sciences ◽

10.1007/s42452-021-04525-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Dostdar Hussain ◽

Aftab Ahmed Khan ◽

Syed Najam Ul Hassan ◽

Syed Ali Asad Naqvi ◽

Akhtar Jamil

Keyword(s):

Snow Water Equivalent ◽

Gravity Data ◽

Water Storage ◽

Indus Basin ◽

Flood Hazards ◽

Terrestrial Water Storage ◽

Satellite Gravity ◽

Terrestrial Water ◽

Gilgit Baltistan

AbstractMountains regions like Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) province of Pakistan are solely dependent on seasonal snow and glacier melt. In Indus basin which forms in GB, there is a need to manage water in a sustainable way for the livelihood and economic activities of the downstream population. It is important to monitor water resources that include glaciers, snow-covered area, lakes, etc., besides traditional hydrological (point-based measurements by using the gauging station) and remote sensing-based studies (traditional satellite-based observations provide terrestrial water storage (TWS) change within few centimeters from the earth’s surface); the TWS anomalies (TWSA) for the GB region are not investigated. In this study, the TWSA in GB region is considered for the period of 13 years (from January 2003 to December 2016). Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) level 2 monthly data from three processing centers, namely Centre for Space Research (CSR), German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ), and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), System Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)-driven Noah model, and in situ precipitation data from weather stations, were used for the study investigation. GRACE can help to forecast the possible trends of increasing or decreasing TWS with high accuracy as compared to the past studies, which do not use satellite gravity data. Our results indicate that TWS shows a decreasing trend estimated by GRACE (CSR, GFZ, and JPL) and GLDAS-Noah model, but the trend is not significant statistically. The annual amplitude of GLDAS-Noah is greater than GRACE signal. Mean monthly analysis of TWSA indicates that TWS reaches its maximum in April, while it reaches its minimum in October. Furthermore, Spearman’s rank correlation is determined between GRACE estimated TWS with precipitation, soil moisture (SM) and snow water equivalent (SWE). We also assess the factors, SM and SWE which are the most efficient parameters producing GRACE TWS signal in the study area. In future, our results with the support of more in situ data can be helpful for conservation of natural resources and to manage flood hazards, droughts, and water distribution for the mountain regions.

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Opportunities for Gravity and GNSS Surveying to Monitor Changes in the Terrestrial Water Storage in the Congo River Basin

Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences ◽

10.1007/s41976-021-00049-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Donghwan Kim

Keyword(s):

River Basin ◽

Water Storage ◽

Terrestrial Water Storage ◽

Congo River ◽

Congo River Basin ◽

Terrestrial Water

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Evaluation of hydrological and cryospheric angular momentum estimates based on GRACE, GRACE-FO and SLR data for their contributions to polar motion excitation

Earth Planets and Space ◽

10.1186/s40623-021-01393-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Justyna Śliwińska ◽

Jolanta Nastula ◽

Małgorzata Wińska

Keyword(s):

Angular Momentum ◽

Spherical Harmonic ◽

Polar Motion ◽

Spectral Band ◽

Water Storage ◽

Terrestrial Water Storage ◽

Terrestrial Water ◽

High Consistency ◽

Polar Motion Excitation

AbstractIn geodesy, a key application of data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO), and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) is an interpretation of changes in polar motion excitation due to variations in the Earth’s surficial fluids, especially in the continental water, snow, and ice. Such impacts are usually examined by computing hydrological and cryospheric polar motion excitation (hydrological and cryospheric angular momentum, HAM/CAM). Three types of GRACE and GRACE-FO data can be used to determine HAM/CAM, namely degree-2 order-1 spherical harmonic coefficients of geopotential, gridded terrestrial water storage anomalies computed from spherical harmonic coefficients, and terrestrial water storage anomalies obtained from mascon solutions. This study compares HAM/CAM computed from these three kinds of gravimetric data. A comparison of GRACE-based excitation series with HAM/CAM obtained from SLR is also provided. A validation of different HAM/CAM estimates is conducted here using the so-called geodetic residual time series (GAO), which describes the hydrological and cryospheric signal in the observed polar motion excitation. Our analysis of GRACE mission data indicates that the use of mascon solutions provides higher consistency between HAM/CAM and GAO than the use of other datasets, especially in the seasonal spectral band. These conclusions are confirmed by the results obtained for data from first 2 years of GRACE-FO. Overall, after 2 years from the start of GRACE-FO, the high consistency between HAM/CAM and GAO that was achieved during the best GRACE period has not yet been repeated. However, it should be remembered that with the systematic appearance of subsequent GRACE-FO observations, this quality can be expected to increase. SLR data can be used for determination of HAM/CAM to fill the one-year-long data gap between the end of GRACE and the start of the GRACE-FO mission. In addition, SLR series could be particularly useful in determination of HAM/CAM in the non-seasonal spectral band. Despite its low seasonal amplitudes, SLR-based HAM/CAM provides high phase consistency with GAO for annual and semiannual oscillation.

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