Comparison between Gaussian and decorrelation filters of GRACE-based RL05 temporal gravity solutions over Egypt

This contribution provides a comparison between the Gaussian and decorrelation filters as derived from GRACE products (RL05) estimated by the official GRACE Science Data System centres (GFZ, CSR and JPL) as well as the ITSG-GRACE2016 solutions over Egypt. The outcome of this study will help in finding out which of these centres provides improved temporal gravity solutions as well as the most promising GRACE time series over Egypt. The obtained results regarding Gaussian filters show that the GFZ centre provides the most promising solutions w.r.t. CSR and JPL. Whereas the ITSG-GRACE2016 products provide improvements, especially at Gaussian radius 200 km, of about 56%, 68% and 60% w.r.t. CSR, JPL and GFZ solutions, respectively. Regarding the decorrelation filtering, the ITSG-GRACE2016 provides the least Std. w.r.t. CSR, JPL and GFZ solutions showing for the DDK8 improvement of about 48%, 64% and 68% w.r.t. the three centres GFZ, JPL and CSR, respectively.