Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Q643)

Subject, term, tag: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment	Subject, term, tag: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment	Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

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source version

IPCC Glossary v1.5

1 reference

Source

https://apps.ipcc.ch/glossary/

date accessed

27 May 2026

Part of

Working Group I: Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis

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Definition

A pair of satellites that measured the Earth’s gravity field anomalies from 2002 to 2017. These fields have been used, among other things, to study mass changes of the polar ice sheets and glaciers. (English)