Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Surface Loading Deformations

GFZ provides surface loading products including vertical and horizontal deformations of the crust imposed by surface loading of geophysical fluids in Atmosphere, oceans, and the continental hydrosphere. Products are provided with a spatial resolution of 0.5°, and a temporal sampling of down to 3 hours. The elastic deformations are calculated via Green's Functions in two different reference frames (i.e. Center-of-Figure and Center-of-Mass) on the basis of Load Love Numbers given for the elastic Earth model ak135 (Kennett et al., 1995). The time-series start in January 1976, and are routinely updated daily at ~10:00 UTC, with all 8 time-steps of the previous day. In addition, 3-hourly forecasts for up to 6 days into the future are also provided.

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