The advent of satellite altimetry has provided unprecedented opportunities and capabilities for monitoring, studying, and forecasting the ocean's physical environment. The synergies of satellite altimetry with hydrography, modelling and the recent gravity field results from the GRACE mission are even more enormous.

The potential insight of GRACE is large, as it is the only system capable of directly measuring the eustatic sea level change, or the component due to addition of fresh water. All other measurements are based on combinations of different data or models. 

• Don Chambers Combining Jason-1 altimetry and GRACE time-variable gravity to study steric sea level  abstract 
  
• Ernst Schrama; Visser, P. Accuracy Assessment of the Monthly Geoid Variation based upon a GRACE Simulation abstract
  
• Steve Nerem; Leuliette, E. W.; Chambers, D. P.; Famiglietti, J.GRACE Assessment of Hydrologic Contributions to Global Mean Sea Level Change abstract
  
• Valérie Ballu; de Viron, O.; Bouin, M.N.; Jan, G.; Diament, M.; Calmant, S.; Bore, J.M.; Bergeot, N. Determining vertical deformations in underwater areas abstract
  

Session: OS12/G2 Time Variable Gravity and its Syntheses with Altimetery, Hydrography, Modeling, Crustal Deformation and Gravity Measurements | >>programme

Session: HS52 Water storage, level and discharge from remote sensing and geodesy | >>programme