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Between 2002 and 2016, Antarctica shed approximately 125 gigatons of ice per year, causing global sea level to rise by 0.35 millimeters per year.
Antarctic Ice Loss 2002-2016
Research based on GRACE observations indicates that between 2002 and 2016, Greenland shed approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year.
Greenland Ice Loss 2002-2016
For 15 years, the GRACE mission has unlocked mysteries of how water moves around our planet. It gave us the first view of underground aquifers from space, and shows how fast polar ice sheets and mo...
15 Years of GRACE Earth Observations
The GRACE Intermediate Field 48 (GIF48 from UT-CSR) field model is an improved mean gravity field that combines GRACE observations with terrestrial and ocean gravity information for the small-scale...
Static gravity field - anomalies (1)
The force of gravity not only keeps us from floating away, it also lets NASA study Earth’s water and ice from space. Using a pair of twin satellites named "GRACE," we can monitor ou...
Scale in the Sky
GRACE on orbit
GRACE on orbit
NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has measured significant groundwater depletion around the world in recent years. These animations show trends in total water storage from Jan....
GRACE Sees Groundwater Losses Around the World
The amount of water stored in the Amazon basin varies from month to month, and can be monitored from space by looking at how it alters Earth's gravity field.
Measuring Water Storage in the Amazon
This visualization of a gravity model was created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and shows variations in Earth’s gravity field.
GRACE global gravity animation
This animation illustrates the highs and lows of the Earth's gravity field as water in the basins of the U.S. changes over time.
GRACE data over the United States, 2003-2012
This image shows the mean annual amplitude of total water storage on Earth in 2007 as measured by GRACE.
Total water storage from GRACE, 2007
These images show the changes in gravity anomalies from GRACE over the Amazon Basin for each month of 2004.
Amazon Basin seasonal hydrology
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