GRACE follow-on: validation of measurements and initial results

该项目旨在推动知识的发展，以量化地球极地冰盖和冰川的持续质量损失、海平面上升和大陆水储存的变化。该项目预计将提高利用卫星监测地球变化的能力，并通过利用定于2018年发射的GRACE后续空间重力任务的新仪器数据来加强分析。预期成果旨在改进计算工具和发展专门知识来分析新数据。其他预期结果包括监测海平面显著上升及相关的社会和经济混乱的可靠方法。

This project aims to advance knowledge to quantify ongoing mass loss of Earth’s polar ice caps and glaciers, increases in sea level, and changes in continental water storage. The project expects to improve the capability to monitor changes on Earth using satellites and to enhance analysis by exploiting data from new instrumentation on the GRACE Follow-On space gravity mission, due for launch in 2018. Expected results aim to improve computational tools and to develop expertise to analyse the new data. Other expected outcomes include reliable methods to monitor significant sea-level rise and associated societal and economic disruptions.