title: Potential Seasonal Terrestrial Water Storage Monitoring from GPS Vertical Displacements: A Case Study in the Lower Three-Rivers Headwater Region, China.
abstract: This study uses the observed vertical displacements of Global Positioning System (GPS) time series obtained from the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC) with careful pre- and post-processing to estimate the seasonal crustal deformation in response to the hydrological loading in lower three-rivers headwater region of southwest China, followed by inferring the annual EWH changes through geodetic inversion methods. The Helmert Variance Component Estimation (HVCE) and the Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) criterion were successfully employed. The GPS inferred EWH changes agree well qualitatively with the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)-inferred and the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)-inferred EWH changes, with a discrepancy of 3.2-3.9 cm and 4.8-5.2 cm, respectively. In the research areas, the EWH changes in the Lancang basin is larger than in the other regions, with a maximum of 21.8-24.7 cm and a minimum of 3.1-6.9 cm.
authors.affiliation: School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. sggzb@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Bao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. ybyao@sgg.whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yibin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. xshhuo@sgg.whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Hok Sum
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Fok
authors.affiliation: School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China. yfhu@whu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yufeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Faculte des Science, de la Technologie et de la Communication, University of Luxembourg, 6 Rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359, Luxembourg. qiang.chen@uni.lu.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: GLDAS; GPS; GRACE; terrestrial water storage; three-rivers