G22A:
Spaceborne Remote Sensing of Gravity: GRACE, GRAIL, GOCE, GRACE-FO, and Beyond I

Session ID#: 3121

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3024 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Srinivas V Bettadpur, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States, Michael M Watkins, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Rune Floberghagen, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
Primary Convener:  Srinivas V Bettadpur, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Michael M Watkins, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Rune Floberghagen, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Srinivas V Bettadpur, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1217 Time variable gravity [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1225 Global change from geodesy [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1240 Satellite geodesy: results [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1241 Satellite geodesy: technical issues [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A high-resolution spherical harmonic degree 1200 lunar gravity field from the GRAIL mission (Invited) (8961)
Ryan S Park1, Alex S Konopliv2, Dah-Ning Yuan2, Sami W Asmar3, Michael M Watkins4, James Williams4, David E Smith5 and Maria T Zuber6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
High-resolution global and local lunar gravity field models using GRAIL mission data (12667)
Sander J Goossens1, Frank G Lemoine2, Terence J Sabaka3, Joseph B Nicholas4, Erwan Mazarico5, David D Rowlands5, Gregory A Neumann6, Bryant D Loomis4, Douglas S Chinn7,8, David E Smith9 and Maria T Zuber10, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy & Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Lunar Crustal Properties: Insights from the GRAIL Gravity Signatures of Lunar Impact Craters (19651)
Jason M Soderblom1, Jeffrey C Andrews-Hanna2, Alexander J Evans3, Brandon C Johnson1, Henry Melosh4, Colleen Milbury4, Katarina Miljkovic1, Francis Nimmo5, Roger J Phillips6, David E Smith7, Sean C Solomon3,8, Mark A Wieczorek9 and Maria T Zuber10, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (9)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Vice President for Research, Cambridge, MA, United States
GRAIL Investigation of the Subsurface Structure of South Pole-Aitken Basin (14268)
Adrienne Ertel1, Francis Nimmo2, Jonathan Besserer1 and Debra Hurwitz Needham3, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Structure of the Moon’s Orientale Basin from Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Observations (18530)
Maria T Zuber1, David E Smith2, Sander J Goossens3, Sami W Asmar4, Alex S Konopliv5, Frank G Lemoine6, Henry Melosh7, Gregory A Neumann8, Roger J Phillips9, Sean C Solomon10,11, Michael M Watkins12, Mark A Wieczorek13, Jeffrey C Andrews-Hanna14, James W Head III15, Walter S. Kiefer16, Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr16, Francis Nimmo17, Jason M Soderblom18, Jeffrey Taylor19, Brandon C Johnson2, Erwan Mazarico20, Katarina Miljkovic2, Ryan S Park21 and Dah-Ning Yuan5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (8)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (11)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (14)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (15)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (16)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (17)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (18)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (19)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (21)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
ESA’s Release 5 Gravity Field Model by the Direct Approach and its Part in the Combined Model EIGEN-6C4 (15641)
Christoph Forste1, Sean Bruinsma2, Oleg Abrikosov1, Jean-Michel Lemoine3, Jean-charles Marty4, Frank Michael Flechtner1, Christoph Dahle1, Hans Neumayer5, Franz Barthelmes1, Rolf König5, Georges Balmino2 and Richard Biancale4, (1)GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)CNES, Toulouse, France, (3)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (4)GET-CNES, OMP, Toulouse, France, (5)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Evaluation of the Recent GOCE-based Global Geopotential Models in North America (30185)
Babak Amjadiparvar, Elena Veselinova Rangelova and Michael G Sideris, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Assessing GOCE Gravity Models Using Altimetry And In-situ Ocean Current Observation (21362)
Per Knudsen1, Ole Baltazar Andersen1, Johanna Honecker2 and Nikolai A Maximenko3, (1)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
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