Publications

GEOGLOWS GRACE Studies

Storage Change and Recharge

  • Evaluating Groundwater Storage Change and Recharge Using GRACE Data: A Case Study of Aquifers in Niger, West Africa
    Sergio A. Barbosa, Sarva T. Pulla, Gustavious P. Williams, Norman L. Jones, Bako Mamane, Jorge L. Sanchez
    MDPI Remote Sensing, March 2022
    DOI: 10.3390/rs14071532

  • A Multi-Source Approach to Groundwater Storage and Recharge Assessment in the Volta Basin
    Sergio A. Barbosa, Norman L. Jones, Gustavious P. Williams, Henok Teklu, Sandow M. Yidana, Sarva T. Pulla, Jorge Luis Sanchez, E. James Nelson, Daniel P. Ames, A. Woodruff Miller
    Science of the Total Environment, 2025
    DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180421

Calibrating GRACE with In Situ Data

  • Groundwater Storage Loss in the Central Valley Analysis Using a Novel Method Based on In Situ Data Compared to GRACE-Derived Data
    Michael D. Stevens, Saul G. Ramirez, Eva-Marie H. Martin, Norman L. Jones, Gustavious P. Williams, Kyra H. Adams, Daniel P. Ames, Sarva T. Pulla
    Environmental Modelling & Software, March 2025
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106368

Background Reading

The GRACE Missions and Mascon Solutions

  • The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment: Mission Overview and Early Results
    Byron D. Tapley, Srinivas Bettadpur, Michael Watkins, Christoph Reigber
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2004
    DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019920

  • Improved Methods for Observing Earth's Time Variable Mass Distribution with GRACE Using Spherical Cap Mascons
    Michael M. Watkins, David N. Wiese, Dah-Ning Yuan, Carmen Boening, Felix W. Landerer
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2015
    DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011547

  • Quantifying and Reducing Leakage Errors in the JPL RL05M GRACE Mascon Solution
    David N. Wiese, Felix W. Landerer, Michael M. Watkins
    Water Resources Research, 2016
    DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019344

  • Extending the Global Mass Change Data Record: GRACE Follow-On Instrument and Science Data Performance
    Felix W. Landerer et al.
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2020
    DOI: 10.1029/2020GL088306

Groundwater from GRACE

  • Detectability of Variations in Continental Water Storage from Satellite Observations of the Time Dependent Gravity Field
    Matthew Rodell, James S. Famiglietti
    Water Resources Research, 1999
    DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900141

  • The Global Land Data Assimilation System
    Matthew Rodell et al.
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2004
    DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-85-3-381

  • Satellite-Based Estimates of Groundwater Depletion in India
    Matthew Rodell, Isabella Velicogna, James S. Famiglietti
    Nature, 2009
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08238

  • GRACE Hydrological Estimates for Small Basins: Evaluating Processing Approaches on the High Plains Aquifer, USA
    Laurent Longuevergne, Bridget R. Scanlon, Clark R. Wilson
    Water Resources Research, 2010
    DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008564

  • Satellites Measure Recent Rates of Groundwater Depletion in California's Central Valley
    James S. Famiglietti et al.
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2011
    DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046442

  • A GRACE-Based Water Storage Deficit Approach for Hydrological Drought Characterization
    Alys C. Thomas, John T. Reager, James S. Famiglietti, Matthew Rodell
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2014
    DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059323

  • The Global Groundwater Crisis
    James S. Famiglietti
    Nature Climate Change, 2014
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2425

Recharge Estimation