Publications related to the GRACE Missions

The links below lead to a compilation of publications (no abstracts) related to the GRACE missions.

This list is periodically updated, but might be incomplete. If you are missing a reference please contact Prof. Dr. Frank Flechtner or Dr. Volker Klemann.

The figure illustrates the statistics of GRACE and GRACE-FO-related publications. Their number per year is shown on the left, rising almost linearly from one publication in 1998 to around 250 in 2024. The cumulative distribution is shown below. Accordingly, the number of all publications increases almost quadratically over the years and reaches more than 3,500 publications at the beginning of 2025. The bar chart on the right shows how many publications contribute to the given colour-coded categories; a publication can belong to more than one category. The categories are atmosphere, cryosphere, land hydrology, ocean, solid earth, magnetic field, earth orientation parameters and geocentre motion, mission design, processing and other. It is striking that the number of publications dealing with land hydrology is increasing in percentage terms, with almost 50 % of all publications contributing to this category in 2024. Averaged over the entire period from 1998 to the present day, the dominance of land hydrology can also be seen, which accounts for around 30 %, whereas the other subsystems atmosphere, cryosphere and ocean each account for less than 15 %. The solid Earth accounts for around 6 %. Magnetic field, earth orientation and mission design together account for around 10 %, while processing accounts for around 15 %. Around 2 % falls under other.
Number of publications per year and their cumulative distribution, where GRACE(-FO) data are applied or which refer directly to the satellite missions. Aside, the ratio of these publications contributing to predefined categories is given. Therein, one paper can be listed in more than one category. (Volker Klemann, GFZ)
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