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This study aims to provide valuable scientific insights into various estimation techniques of geocentre motion (GCM) from the perspective of signal analysis, thereby enhancing Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) users' understanding and application of GCM. Initially, it utilizes the satellite laser ranging (SLR) technique with the network shift approach to estimate over 30 yr of weekly GCM time-series from 1994 to 2024. Subsequently, we employ two approaches to estimate three types of monthly GCM time-series spanning more than 20 yr from 2002 to 2023: combining GRACE data with an ocean bottom pressure model (GRACE-OBP approach), the fingerprint approach (FPA), and the fingerprint approach with satellite altimetry data (FPA-SA, up to 2022). The former is referred to as SLR-based GCM estimates, while the latter, which uses GRACE Earth's gravity field models, is termed GRACE-based GCM estimates. Furthermore, this study pioneers the use of multichannel singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) for GCM analysis, especially focusing on the latest GRACE-based GCM estimates from the GRACE-OBP and FPA/FPA-SA approaches, marking the first comprehensive analysis of GCM estimated by various techniques. The results show that MSSA can effectively extract common signals from the three components of the GCM time-series. The seasonal components extracted from GRACE-based GCM estimates using MSSA are consistent with those from SLR-based GCM estimates, although the former exhibit slightly larger amplitudes of the annual and semi-annual signals. After correcting the atmosphere-ocean dealiasing, the amplitudes of the SLR-based estimates correspondingly decrease, remaining slightly larger but becoming closer to those of the GRACE-based estimates. However, a periodic signal with an approximate 160-d period is detectable in all GRACE-based GCM estimates, but it is absent in SLR-based GCM estimates. Further investigation using MSSA into higher degree spherical harmonic (SH) coefficients of the Earth's gravity field models reveals that these SH coefficients contain a 160-d periodic signal. This finding suggests that the signal detected in GRACE-based GCM estimates originates from systematic errors in these SH coefficients, offering new insights for improving the accuracy of GRACE Earth's gravity field solutions. Additionally, GRACE-based GCM estimates show significant secular non-zero trends, notably larger than those in SLR-based GCM estimates, which are not expected to exhibit any trends. However, the reliance of GRACE-based GCM estimates on geophysical models (e.g. glacier melting, glacial isostatic adjustment and hydrological models) limits the accuracy of their trends, underscoring the need for further validation. Overall, this study highlights new challenges regarding the accuracy of GRACE-based GCM estimates and emphasizes the necessity for further validation in mass change research.
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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
ISSN: 0956-540X
Year: 2025
Issue: 1
Volume: 242
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JCR@2023
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