Regional high-resolution spatiotemporal gravity modeling from GRACE data using spherical wavelets

[1] We determine a regional spatiotemporal gravity field over northern South America including the Amazon region using GRACE inter-satellite range-rate measurements by application of a wavelet-based multiresolution technique. A major advantage of this method is that we are able to represent the Amazon hydrological signals in form of time series of detail signals with level-dependent temporal resolution: the coarser structures generally require only ten days, whereas the medium and finer details are computable from one month of data. To this end, we employ the basic property of multiresolution representations, which is to split a signal into detail signals, each related to a specific resolution level and computable from data covering a specific part of the spectrum. Our results, which for the first time fully exploit the spatial and temporal resolutions of GRACE data in modeling Amazon hydrological fluxes, are in good agreement with hydrological models and GPS-derived height variations. Citation: Schmidt, M., S.-C. Han, J. Kusche, L. Sanchez, and C. K. Shum (2006), Regional highresolution spatiotemporal gravity modeling from GRACE data using spherical wavelets, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08403, doi:10.1029/2005GL025509.