RESEL-GRACE

Funded by: CNRS, DFG, NWO

The aim of this CRP is to refine European sea level estimations by combining altimetry, tide gauges, ARGO float data, hydrographic and other data sets with improved regional GIA modeling and tailored regional GRACE gravity field models. Objectives of this CRP include (i) to derive regional mean and time-variable gravity models directly from GRACE instrument data for dedicated European regions of interest; (ii) to update the regional sea level rates in the Mediterranean Sea using multi-satellite altimetry, tide-gauge and hydrographic data, and to explain the water mass contribution to sea level by using GRACE measurements of gravity due to redistribution of water mass; (iii) to improve estimates of glacial-isostatic adjustment in Northern Europe, and to improve our knowledge of the shallow earth structure and rheology of the region.

Project Leader:

Dr. Jürgen Kusche

Institute of Geodecy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Principal Investigators:

Dr. Anny Cazenave

Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie, Spatiale (LEGOS), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France

Dr. Martyn Robert Drury

Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Dr. Frank Flechtner

Department of Geodesy and Remote Sensing, GFZ Potsdam, Wessling, Germany

Dr. Guillaume Ramillien

Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie, Spatiale (LEGOS), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France

Dr. Bert Vermeersen

DEOS, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands