H030
Advancing Hydrological and Earth System Insights from GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions
Session ID#: 253725
Session Description:
The GRACE and GRACE Follow-On missions have transformed our ability to monitor large-scale changes in terrestrial water storage (TWS), providing vital insights into the effects of climate variability and human activity on the global water cycle. As the observational record continues to grow, researchers are increasingly equipped to detect long-term hydrological trends, quantify groundwater depletion, monitor the evolution of droughts and floods, and evaluate water system responses to climate extremes and land use change.This session focuses on scientific discoveries enabled by GRACE and GRACE-FO data, and their integration with complementary Earth observations (e.g., SWOT, SMAP, NISAR, Landsat-9, OPERA), in-situ measurements, GNSS observations, and modeling tools. We aim to highlight how mass change data from GRACE missions are advancing our understanding of terrestrial water storage dynamics, hydroclimatic processes, ecosystem interactions, and broader feedbacks within the Earth system.
Index Terms:
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Karem Abdelmohsen, Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States
Conveners: John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
When 23 Years of GRACE Observations Outweigh 25,000 Years of Simulated Climate (1857181)
Ashraf Rateb1, Bridget R Scanlon1 and Alexander Y Sun2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States
Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Land Use/Land Cover Change in the La Plata River Basin Using GRACE and GLDAS (1858604)
Maria Laila Jover, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Augusto Getirana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sydney Crisanti, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, United States, John B Eylander, USACE/ERDC/CRREL, Hanover, United States and Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
Integrated GRACE and Model-Based Analysis of Hydrologic Systems in Present and Future Climates (Invited) (1865173)
Mohamed Sultan1, Hesham Elhaddad2, Hassan Saleh1, Hadi Karimi1, Doaa Hegazy3, Rami Mansouri2, Karem Abdelmohsen4, Himanshu Save5 and Mustafa Kemal Emil2, (1)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (2)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, (3)National Authority for Remote sensing and Space Sciences, Geoscience department, Cairo, Egypt, (4)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States
Interpretable high-resolution mapping of terrestrial water storage dynamics on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau based on deep learning (1879412)
Jun Chen1, Sihong Wu2, Linsong Wang3, Chao Chen1 and Jiajia Sun4, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Hubei Subsurface Multi-scale Imaging Key Laboratory, School of Geophysics and Geomatics, Wuhan, China, (2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Hubei Subsurface Multi-Scale Imaging Key Laboratory, School of Geophysics and Geomatics, Wuhan, China, (4)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
ML-driven geospatial downscaling of GRACE for high-resolution groundwater storage estimations in Shelby County, USA (1897461)
Faraz Ul Haq1, Farhad Jazaei2, Arfan Arshad3 and Muhammad Fahim Aslam1, (1)University of Memphis, Civil Engineering, Memphis, TN, United States, (2)University of Memphis, Civil Engineering, Memphis, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Improving Local Groundwater Monitoring with High-Resolution Downscaling of GRACE Data in Phoenix, Arizona Using Machine Learning (1900414)
Md Rayhan1, Karem Abdelmohsen2, Hrishi Chandanpurkar2 and James S Famiglietti2, (1)Arizona State University, School of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States
Assessing Groundwater Storage Change in the Great Salt Lake Basin Using GRACE Data with Leakage Correction and In-Situ Well Validation (1902393)
Henok Teklu1, Norm Jones2, Gustavious P Williams2 and Jim Nelson3, (1)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Civil and Construction Engineering, Provo, United States, (3)Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States
Mass Change Index for Characterizing Hydrological Extremes Every Few Days from Satellite Gravity Measurements (1905057)
Miao Tang1,2, Shin-Chan Han2, Linguo Yuan1, Xinghai Yang1, In-Young Yeo2, Matthew Rodell3, Bailing Li4, Eunjee Lee5 and Zhongshan Jiang6, (1)Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, (2)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (3)NASA GSFC Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC Hydrological Science Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (5)USRA Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Columbia, United States, (6)Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China
High-Resolution Estimation of Groundwater Storage Changes in the Korean Peninsula Using Statistical Downscaling of GRACE (1907484)
SeungHwan Lee1, Hahn Chul Jung2, Heejeong Jeong1, Augusto Getirana3 and Hyongki Lee4, (1)Yonsei University, Satellite Geosciences Lab, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States
Inter-basin Signal Leakages in Gravimetry-derived Water Storage Variations: Insights from the Mu Us Region (1914831)
Junyang Gou1, Zaiyong Zhang2,3, Yue Hu2,3, Yuhao Xiong4, Junliang Qiu5, Laura Crocetti1, Eva Boergens6, Dr. Chengcheng Gong7, Wei Feng4, Nico Sneeuw8 and Benedikt Soja1, (1)Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effects in Arid Region, Chang'an University, Ministry of Education, Xi'an, China, (3)School of Water and Environment, Chang'an University, Xi'an, China, (4)School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China, (5)Institute of Aerospace Remote Sensing Innovations, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China, (6)GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (7)State Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (8)Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Sustainable utilization of the Rahat Volcanic Field Aquifer, Saudi Arabia: Inferences from field, GRACE, and Precipitation data. (1924571)
Rami Mansouri1,2, Mohamed Sultan3, Hesham Elhaddad1 and Hassan Saleh3, (1)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, (2)Taibah University, Geology Department, College of Science, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah city, Saudi Arabia, (3)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
Integrating GRACE-Informed Root-Zone Storage Capacity into Noah-MP to Enhance Drought and Ecohydrological Simulations (1926275)
Matthew McKinney, University of Idaho, Earth and Spatial Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Bailing Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Qifei Niu, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States, Dr. Lingcheng Li, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Alistair MS Smith, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Meng Zhao, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
Estimating Spatially Distributed Changes in Groundwater Storage in the Mahanadi Basin using GRACE Mission (1942807)
Shivanshi Yadav1,2, Bhaskar Ramachandra Nikam3 and Prasun Kumar Gupta2, (1)Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (2)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics Department, Dehradun, India, (3)Indian Space Research Organisation, Earth Observation Applications & Disaster Management Support Programme Office, Bengaluru, India
U.S. Geological Survey national groundwater assessment using groundwater water levels and GRACE (1952286)
Benjamin Linhoff, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Fe, United States, Mikaela L Cherry, U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Water Science Center, Lincoln, United States, Zachary Johnson, US Geological Survey, WA-WSC, Tacoma, WA, United States and Galen Gorski, US Geological Survey, Reston, United States
Machine Learning Based Dynamic Integration of Grace-Based Water Storage into Global Hydrological Models (1953279)
Fitsume T Wolkeba, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen, University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, United States, Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, United States and Mukesh Kumar, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States
Evaluating the Sensitivity of GRACE/GRACE-FO in Detecting Potential Saline Water Intrusion Zones (1960994)
Md Nasrat Jahan, The University of Mississippi, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, Oxford, MS, United States, Lance D Yarbrough, University of Mississippi, Geology & Geological Engineering, Oxford, MS, United States, Zahra Ghaffari, The University of Mississippi, Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute, University, United States, Hakan Yasarer, University of Mississippi, Department of Civil Engineering, University, United States, Thomas Oommen, University of Mississippi, Geology and Geological Engineering, Oxford, United States and Ronald Counts, University of Mississippi, Geology & Geological Engineering, Oxford, United States
The Role of Seasonal Wind Regimes in Modulating Precipitation and Aquifer Recharge in the Red Sea Hills, Saudi Arabia (1977987)
Sara AlQamshouai1, Karem Abdelmohsen2,3, Fahad Alshehri4 and James S Famiglietti3, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt, (3)Arizona State University, School of Sustainability, Tempe, United States, (4)King Saud University, Geology and Geophysics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Integrated Analysis of Major Aquifer Groundwater Changes Based on GRACE and Hydrological Modeling (1982897)
DAN Feng1, Kenji Tanaka2, Temur Khujanazarov2, Kazuaki Yorozu2 and Yoshiya Touge2, (1)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
Seasonal cycles in terrestrial water storage observed by GRACE and GRACE-FO (1986174)
Mary Michael ONeill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States and Bryant D Loomis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Monitoring long term Groundwater Storage Change from Gap-Filled GRACE/GRACE-FO terrestrial water Storage anomaly in Major River Basins of Peninsular India (1996141)
Saurabh Choubey, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India-382030, School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Gandhinagar, India, Shard Chander, Space Applications centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Land Hydrology Division, Ahemadabad, India and Rina Kumari, Central University of Gujarat, School of Environment and Sustainable Development, Gandhinagar, India
