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    GRACE-FO Level-2 Monthly Geopotential Spherical Harmonics GFZ Release 6.3 (RL06.3)

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    FOR EXPERT USE ONLY. This dataset contains estimates of the total month-by-month geopotential of the Earth, derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission measurements, produced by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). The data are provided as spherical harmonic coefficients, averaged over approximately a month. These coefficients are derived from the Microwave Instrument (MWI) measured intersatellite range changes between the twin spacecraft of the GRACE-FO mission. Refer to the mission page for more information.

    This GRACE-FO RL06.3 data is an updated version of the GRACE-FO RL06.1 Level-2 data products. RL06.3 differs from RL06.1 only in the Level-1B accelerometer transplant data that is used for the GF2 satellite: Level-2 RL06.3 uses ACH1B RL04 that is contained within the ACX2 Level-1 bundle, which replaces ACH1B RL04 contained within the ACX Level-1 bundle that was used for Level-2 RL06.1 (note: ACX2-L1B is only applicable for 01/2023 onwards in wide-deadband operational mode; from 6/2018 through 12/2022, RL06.1 and RL06.3 GRACE-FO data are identical). All GRACE-FO RL06.3 Level-2 products are fully compatible with the GRACE RL06 level-2 fields. Refer to the mission page for more information.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C3059674861-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2022-04-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category GRACE-FO, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GFL20-MG063
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b8a77749e632123a41f0ab59b6e16ad9cd7b165760647be608070729b30454d4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z/2024-10-21T00:00:00Z

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