Scientific Papers

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2019

Piccioni G., Dettmering D., Bosch W., & Seitz F. (2019). TICON: TIdal CONstants based on GESLA sea‐level records from globally located tide gauges. Geoscience Data Journal, 97-104, https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.72
 

2020

Dobslaw, H., Dill, R., Bagge, M., Klemann, V., Boergens, E., Thomas, M., Dahle, C., & Flechtner, F. (2020). Gravitationally Consistent Mean Barystatic Sea‐Level Rise From Leakage‐Corrected Monthly GRACE Data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, 11, doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020923. Open Access.

Poropat, L., Kvas, A., Mayer-Gürr, T., & Dobslaw, H. (2020). Mitigating Temporal Aliasing Effects of High-Frequency Geophysical Fluid Dynamics in Satellite Gravimetry. Geophysical Journal International, 220, 1, 257-266. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz439. Open Access.
 

2021

Abrykosov, P., Sulzbach, R., Pail, R., Dobslaw, H., & Thomas M. (2021). Treatment of ocean tide background model errors in the context of GRACE/GRACE-FO data processing, Geophysical Journal International 228 (3), 2022, 1850-1865, doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab421. Open Access.

Hart-Davis, M.G., Dettmering, D., Sulzbach, R., Thomas, M., Schwatke, C., & Seitz, F. (2021). Regional Evaluation of Minor Tidal Constituents for Improved Estimation of Ocean Tides. Remote Sens., 13, 3310. doi.org/10.3390/rs13163310. Open Access.

Hart-Davis, M.G., Piccioni, G., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C., Passaro, M., & Seitz, F. (2021). EOT20: a global ocean tide model from multi-mission satellite altimetry, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 3869–3884, doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3869-2021. No reference to DFG funding.

Huang, P., Sulzbach, R.L., Tanaka, Y., Klemann, V., Dobslaw, H., Martinec, Z., & Thomas, M. (2021). Anelasticity and lateral heterogeneities in Earth's upper mantle: Impact on surface displacements, self-attraction and loading, and ocean tide dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022332. Open Access.

Klos, A., Karegar, M.A., Kusche, J., & Springer, A. (2021a). Quantifying noise in Daily GPS Height Time Series: Harmonic Function Versus GRACE-assimilating modelling approaches. IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Letters, 18(4): 627-631. doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2020.2983045 Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Klos, A., Dobslaw, H., Dill, R., & Bogusz, J. (2021b). Identifying the sensitivity of GPS to non-tidal loadings at various time resolutions: examining vertical displacements from continental Eurasia. GPS Solutions 25: 89. doi.org/10.1007/s10291-021-01135-w. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Piccioni, G., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C., Passaro, M., & Seitz F. (2021). Design and regional assessment of an empirical tidal model based on FES2014 and coastal altimetry. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 1013-1022, doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.08.030. No reference to DFG funding.

Schindelegger, M., Harker, A.A., Ponte, R.M., Dobslaw, H., & Salstein, D.A. (2021). Convergence of daily GRACE solutions and models of sub‐monthly ocean bottom pressure variability. - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, 2,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017031. Open Access.

Schröder, S., Stellmer, S., & Kusche, J. (2021). Potential and scientific requirements of optical clock networks for validating satellite-derived time-variable gravity data. Geophysical Journal International, 226(2):764–779 doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab132. Open Access.

Shihora, L., Sulzbach, R., Dobslaw, H., & Thomas, M. (2021). Self-Attraction and Loading Feedback on Ocean Dynamics in both Shallow Water Equations and Primitive Equations. Ocean Modelling, 2021, 101914, ISSN 1463-5003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101914.

Sulzbach, R., Dobslaw, H., & Thomas M. (2021). High-Resolution Numerical Modeling of Barotropic Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry, JGR: Oceans, Vol 126, 5, pp 1-21, doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017097. Open Access.

Yang, F., Forootan, E., Wang, C., Kusche, J., Luo Z. (2021): A new 1-hourly ERA5-based atmosphere de-aliasing product for GRACE, GRACE-FO, and Future Gravity Missions. J. Geophys. Res. (Solid Earth), doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021926, but no reference to DFG funding.
 

2022

Boergens, E., Kvas, A., Eicker, A., Dobslaw, H., Schawohl, L., Dahle, C., Murböck, M., & Flechtner, F. (2022). Uncertainties of GRACE‐Based Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies for Arbitrary Averaging Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(2), doi.org/10.1029/2021jb022081. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Ghobadi-Far, K., Han, S.C., McCullough, C.M., Wiese, D.N., Ray, R.D., Sauber, J., Shihora, L., & Dobslaw, H. (2022). Along-orbit analysis of GRACE Follow-On inter-satellite laser ranging measurements for sub-monthly surface mass variations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022983. Open Access.

Huang, P., Sulzbach, R., Klemann, V., Tanaka, Y., Dobslaw, H., Martinec, Z., & Thomas, M. (2022). The Influence of Sediments, Lithosphere and Upper Mantle (Anelastic) With Lateral Heterogeneity on Ocean Tide Loading and Ocean Tide Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127, no.11, doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025200. Open Access.

Schlaak, M., Pail, R., Jensen, L., & Eicker, A. (2022). Closed loop simulations on recoverability of climate trends in next generation gravity missions. In Geophysical Journal International 232 (2), pp. 1083–1098. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac373. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding 

Shihora, L., Balidakis, K., Dill, R., Dahle, C., Ghobadi-Far, K., Bonin, J., & Dobslaw, H. (2022). Non-tidal background modeling for satellite gravimetry based on operational ECWMF and ERA5 reanalysis data: AOD1B RL07. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024360. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Wziontek, H., Hart-Davis, M. Dobslaw, H., Scherneck, H.G., Van Camp, M., Omang, O.C.D., Antokoletz, E.D., Voigt, C. Dettmering. D, Thomas, M (2022). Modeling gravimetric signatures of third-degree ocean tides and their detection in superconducting gravimeter records. J Geod 96, 35. doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01609-w. Open Access.
 

2023

Abrykosov, P., Murböck, M., Hauk, M., Pail, R., Flechtner, F. (2023). Data-driven multi-step self-de-aliasing approach for GRACE and GRACE-FO data processing. Geophysical Journal International, 232(2), 1006-1030, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac340.

Andersen, O, Rose, S, & Hart-Davis, M. (2023). Polar Ocean tides revisited. Remote Sensing: Advances in Satellite Altimetry, doi.org/10.3390/rs15184479. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Balidakis, K., Sulzbach, R., Shihora, L., Dahle, C., Dill, R., & Dobslaw, H. (2023). Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (11). doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003193. Open Access.

Balidakis, K., Sulzbach, R., Dobslaw, H., & Dill, R. (2023). How Do Atmospheric Tidal Loading Displacements Vary Temporally as well as Across Different Weather Models? International Association of Geodesy Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 2023,  https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2023_201 Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Hart-Davis, M., Laan, S., Schwatke, C., Backeberg, B., Dettmering, D., Zijl, F., Verlaan, M. & Seitz, F. (2023). Altimetry-derived tide model for improved tide and water level forecasting along the European continental shelf. Ocean Dynamics, doi.org/10.1007/s10236-023-01560-0. Open Access.

Hauk, M., Wilms, J., Sulzbach, R., Panafidina, N., Hart-Davis, M., Dahle, C., Müller, V., Murböck, M. & Flechtner, F (2023). Satellite gravity field recovery using variance covariance information from ocean tide models. AGU Earth & Space,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003098. Open Access.

Klos, A., Kusche, J., Leszczuk, G., Gerdener, H., Schulze, K., Lenczuk, A., & Bogusz, J. (2023). Introducing the idea of classifying sets of permanent GNSS stations as benchmarks for hydrogeodesy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026988. Open Access.

Murböck, M., Abrykosov, P., Dahle, C., Hauk, M., Pail, R., & Flechtner, F. (2023). In-orbit performance of the GRACE accelerometers and microwave ranging instrument. Remote Sensing, 15(3), 563, https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/3/563

Shihora, L., Balidakis, K., Dill, R., Dobslaw, H. (2023), Assessing the stability of AOD1B atmosphere–ocean non-tidal background modelling for climate applications of satellite gravity data: long-term trends and 3-hourly tendencies, Geophysical Journal International, Volume 234, Issue 2, Pages 1063–1072, doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad119. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Klemann, V., Knorr, G., Dobslaw, H., Dümpelmann, H., Lohmann, G. & Thomas, M. (2023). Evolution of Global Ocean Tide Levels Since the Last Glacial Maximum, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38 (5), Accessed January 31, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004556.

Voigt, C., Sulzbach, R., Timmen, L., Dobslaw, H., Weise, A., Deng Z., Stolarczuk, N., Pflug, H., Peters, H., Fietz, M., Thomas, M., Förste, C., & Flechtner, F. (2023). A superconducting gravimeter on the island of Helgoland for the high-accuracy determination of regional ocean tide loading signals of the North Sea, Geophysical Journal International, 234(3), Pages 1585–1602, doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad147. Open Access.
 

2024

Eicker, A., Schawohl, L., Middendorf, K., Bagge, M., Jensen, L., & Dobslaw, H. (2024). Influence of GIA uncertainty on climate model evaluation with GRACE/GRACE‐FO satellite gravimetry data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(5), doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027769. Open Access.

Hart-Davis, M.G., Howard, S.L., Ray, R.D., Andersen, O.B., Padman, L., Nilsen, F. & Dettmering, D. (2024). ArcTiCA: Arctic tidal constituents atlas. Nature Scientific Data.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03012-w. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding.

Hart-Davis, M.G., Andersen, O.B., Ray, R.D., Zaron, E.D., Schwatke, C., Arildsen, R.L., Dettmering, D., Nielsen, K. (2024). Tides in complex coastal regions: early case studies from wide-swath SWOT measurements. Geophysical Research Letters.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109983. Open Access.

Opel, L., Schindelegger, M., Ray, R. D. (2024). A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(261).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01432-5

Ponte, R.M., Zhao, M., & Schindelegger, M. (2024). How well do we know the seasonal cycle in ocean bottom pressure? Earth and Space Science. 11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003661

Ponte, R. M., & Schindelegger, M. (2024). Seasonal cycle in sea level across the coastal zone. Earth and Space Science, 11, doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003978
Shihora, L., Martin, T., Hans, A. C., Hummels, R., Schindelegger, M., & Dobslaw, H. (2024). Relating North Atlantic Deep Water transport to ocean bottom pressure variations as a target for satellite gravimetry missions. EGUsphere 2024, pp. 1–23. doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3660. Open Access.

Shihora, L., Liu, Z., Balidakis, K., Wilms, J., Dahle, C., Flechtner, F., & Dobslaw, H. (2024). Accounting for residual errors in atmosphere–ocean background models applied in satellite gravimetry. Journal of Geodesy, 98, 27. doi.org/10.1007/s00190-024-01832-7. Open Access.

Springer, A., Mielke, C.A., Liu, Z., Dixit, S., Friederichs, P., & Kusche, J. (2024). A regionally refined and mass-consistent atmospheric and hydrological de-aliasing product for GRACE, GRACE-FO and future gravity missions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027883. Open Access.

Voigt, C., Sulzbach, R., Dobslaw, H., Weise, A., Timmen, L., Deng, Z., Reich, M., Stolarczuk, N., Peters, H., Fietz, M., Thomas, M., Flechtner, F. (2024). Non-tidal ocean loading signals of the north and baltic sea from terrestrial gravimetry, gnss, and high-resolution modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, 2024. doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109262. Open Access.
 

2025

Abrykosov, P., & Pail, R. (2025). Demonstrating the potential for the reduction of temporal aliasing through tailored stochastic modelling of non-tidal atmosphere and ocean model uncertainties in closed-loop simulations. Journal of Geodesy 99(7). doi.org/10.1007/s00190-025-01980-4. Open Access.

Gou, J., Börger, L., Schindelegger, M., & Soja, B. (2025). Downscaling GRACE-derived ocean bottom pressure anomalies using self-supervised data fusion. Journal of Geodesy, 99 (19). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-025-01943-9.

Hart-Davis, M.G., Dettmering, D., Seitz, F. (2025): TICON-4: Tidal Constants based on GESLA-4 sea-level records from globally distributed tide gauges including gauge type information (data). doi.org/10.17882/109129. Open Access.

Kracheletz, M., Liu, Z., Springer, A., Kusche, J., & Friederichs, P. (2025). Would the 2021 western Europe flood event be visible in satellite gravimetry? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042190. Open Access.

Liu, L., Schindelegger, M., Börger, L., Foth, J., & Gou, J. (2025). Assessment of ocean bottom pressure variations in CMIP6 HighResMIP simulations. Ocean Science, 21(5), 2149–2167. doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2149-2025. Open Access.

Middendorf, K., Dobslaw, H., Jensen, L., & Eicker, A. (2025). Return Levels of Dry Extreme Events in Terrestrial Water Storage From Satellite Gravimetry and CMIP6 Global Coupled Climate Models. In JGR Solid Earth 130 (10), Article e2024JB031011. doi.org/10.1029/2024JB031011. Open Access

Mielke, C. A., Karegar, M. A., Gerdener, H., & Kusche, J. (2025a). GNSS observations of the land uplift in South Africa: Implications for water mass loss. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030350. doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030350. Open Access. 

Mielke, C. A., Kusche, J., Friederichs, P., & Springer, A. (2025b). GRACE-FO and future satellite gravity missions will need to account for global cloud water convergence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2025JD044124. doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044124. Open Access.

Schlaak, M., & Pail, R. (2025a). MAGIC’s Ability to Estimate the Long-Term Trend in Climate-Related Mass Transport Signals. In: International Association of Geodesy Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi.org/10.1007/1345_2025_286. Open Access, but no reference to DFG funding

Schlaak, M., & Pail, R. (2025b). Resolving climate-related mass transport trends: a parameter model comparison using closed-loop simulations of current and future satellite gravity missions. In Earth Planets Space 77 (1). doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02239-0. Open Access.

Shihora, L., Martin, T., Hans, A. C., Hummels, R., Schindelegger, M., & Dobslaw, H. (2025). Relating Atlantic meridional deep-water transport to ocean bottom pressure variations as a target for satellite gravimetry missions. Ocean Science, 21, 1533–1548. doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1533-2025. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Bagge, M., Schindelegger, M., and Klemann, V (2025). The amplified glacial arctic tide regime—sensitivities and feedback on the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(4):435–449, April 2025. ISSN 1520-0485. doi.org 10.1175/jpo-d-24-0122.1. No reference to DFG funding.

Wilms, J., Hauk, M., Panafidina, N., Murböck, M., Neumayer, K.H., Dahle, C., & Flechtner, F. (2025). Optimized gravity field retrieval for the MAGIC mission concept using background model uncertainty information. J Geod, 99(21), doi.org/10.1007/s00190-024-01931-5. Open Access.
 

2026

Hart-Davis, M.G., Scherer, D., Schwatke, C., Sawyer, A., Pavelsky, T., Ray, R.D., Matte, P., Dettmering, D, Seitz, F. (2026): Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10287-z. Open Access.

 

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Data publication

2021

Hart-Davis, M.G., Piccioni, G., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C., Passaro, M. and Seitz, F. (2021). EOT20 - A global Empirical Ocean Tide model from multi-mission satellite altimetry. SEANOE. doi.org/10.17882/79489. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Dobslaw, H., Thomas, M. (2021): Mass variations induced by ocean tide oscillations (TiME21). V. 1.0. GFZ Data Services. doi.org/10.5880/nerograv.2021.001. Open Access.
 

2022

Hart-Davis, M.G., Dettmering, D., Seitz, F. (2022): TICON-3: Tidal Constants based on GESLA-3 sea-level records from globally distributed tide gauges including gauge type information (data). PANGAEA, doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.951610. Open Access.

Schlaak, M., & Pail, R. (2022). Simulation Results from Multi-decadal Satellite Gravity Simulations on Recoverability of Climate Trends in Next Generation Gravity Missions (NGGMs). mediaTUM. doi.org/10.14459/2022mp1639092. Open Access.

Shihora, L., Balidakis, K., Dill, R., & Dobslaw, H. (2022): Atmosphere and Ocean Non-Tidal Dealiasing Level-1B (AOD1B) Product RL07. doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.3.2022.003. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Klemann, V., Dobslaw, H., Thomas, M. (2022): Global Ocean Tide Model Data During the Last 21,000 Years. GFZ Data Services. doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.3.2022.005. Open Access.
 

2023

Hart-Davis, M., Howard, S., Ray, R., Andersen, O., Padman, L., Nilsen, F., Dettmering, D. (2023): ArcTiCA: Arctic Tidal Constituents Atlas. Arctic Data Center. doi.org/10.18739/A2D795C4N. Open Access.

Hart-Davis, M., Schwatke, C., Dettmering, D., Passaro, M. and Seitz, F. (2023). EOT-NECS Ocean Tide Model. SEANOE, doi.org/10.17882/94705. Open Access.

Hart-Davis, M., Schwatke, C., Dettmering, D., Passaro, M. & Seitz, F. (2023). EOT-NECS Ocean Tide Model. SEANOE, https://doi.org/10.17882/94705.

Mielke, C., Springer, A., Dixit, S., Friederichs, P., Kusche, J., Schindelegger, & M. (2023): Regionally refined high-resolution and mass-consistent AH+O de-aliasing coefficients for GRACE/-FO. GFZ Data Services. doi.org/10.5880/nerograv.2023.002. Open Access.

Murböck, M., Flechtner, F., Abrykosov, P., & Pail, R. (2023): Stochastic models for GRACE/GRACE-FO accelerometers and inter-satellite ranging instruments. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/nerograv.2023.001.

Shihora, L., Balidakis, K., Dill, R., & Dobslaw, H. (2023): AOe07 Variance-Covariance-Matrix. doi.org/10.5880/NEROGRAV.2023.004. Open Access.

Sulzbach R., Hart-Davis M.G., Dettmering D., Thomas M. (2023): Regularized Empirical Variance-Covariance-Matrices for stochastic gravity modeling of 8 major ocean tides (data). GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/nerograv.2023.003. Open Access.

Sulzbach, R., Balidakis, K., Dobslaw, H., & Thomas, M., (2023). TiME22: Periodic Disturbances of the Terrestrial Gravity Potential Induced by Oceanic and Atmospheric Tides. GFZ Data Services, doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.3.2022.006. Open Access.
 

2025

Hart-Davis, M., Dettmering, D., Seitz, F. (2025): TICON-4: TIdal CONstants based on GESLA-4 sea-level records. SEANOE, doi.org/10.17882/109129. Open Access.

Liu, L., Schindelegger, M., & Börger, L. (2025): Monthly ocean bottom pressure anomalies 1980–2014 and 2030–2049 from CMIP6 HighResMIP models, Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14886818. Open Access.

Mielke, C. A., & Springer, A. (2025): Global Catalog of Extreme Convective Storms Derived from Cloud Water Data. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14974779. Open Access.
 

2026

Hart-Davis M., Sulzbach R., Talke S. (2026): Tidal characteristics from tide gauge data. SEANOE, doi.org/10.17882/111620.