Satellite Geodesy and Remote Sensing Database: Energy and Mass Changes of the Northern High-Latitudes of Earth Associated with Permafrost Changes
Project duration:
2007-current
Project Summary
In 2007 I began an investigation of the near-surface energy and mass transfers using GRACE with GPS, MODIS and SSM/I datasets. I emplyee methods and techniques from satellite geodesy, geopotential theory and inverse (linear and non-inear) methods.
This webpage links to the data files held in the GIPL server "frosty" and to meta-data held at the IARC Data Archive.
An example from a movie of GRACE (GIA reduced) is shown below. The movie is at http://www2.gi.alaska.edu/~rmuskett/ (click GRACE NH Movie).
Measurements:
Changes of Land-Surface Temperature, CO2-Equivalent Carbon Emissions-Mixing Ratios, Snow Water Equivalent, Sea Ice Area Extent, Water Equivalent Mass, Groundwater Storage, Surface Water Runoff-Storage
Measurements and Modeling:
GRACE, GPS, ICESatI, GOSAT, MODIS (Aqua, Terra), N7 SMMR, DMSP F8-11-13 SSM/I, DMSP F17 SSMIS
Modeling:
Geopotential Field Theory, Linear-Nonlinear Inverse Theory, IR-TIR and Microwave Algorithmic Retrievals
Publications: