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Separation of global time-variable gravity signals into maximally independent components

Author: Forootan, E; Kusche, J Publication info: Journal of Geodesy 86.7 (Jul 2012): 477-497. ProQuest document link Abstract: The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) products provide valuable information about total water storage variations over the whole globe. Since GRACE detects mass variations integrated over vertical columns, it is desirable to separate its total water storage anomalies into their original sources. Among the statistical approaches, the principal component analysis (PCA) method and its extensions have been frequently proposed to decompose the GRACE products into space and time components. However, these methods only search for decorrelated components that on the one hand are not always interpretable and on the other hand often contain a superposition of independent source signals. In contrast, independent component analysis (ICA) represents a technique that separates components based on assumed statistical independence using higher-order statistical information. If one assumes that independent physical processes generate statistically independent signal components added up in the GRACE observations, separating them by ICA is a reliable strategy to identify these processes. In this paper, the performance of the conventional PCA, its rotated extension and ICA are investigated when applied to the GRACE-derived total water storage variations. These analyses have been tested on both a synthetic example and on the real GRACE level-2 monthly solutions derived from GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ RL04) and Bonn University (ITG2010). Within the synthetic example, we can show how imposing statistical independence in the framework of ICA improves the extraction of the 'original' signals from a GRACE-type super-position. We are therefore confident that also for the real case the ICA algorithm, without making prior assumptions about the long-term behaviour or on the frequencies contained in the signal, improves over the performance of PCA and its rotated extension in the separation of periodical and long-term components.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] Subject: Geodetics; Artificial satellites; Statistical analysis; Geophysics; Publication title: Journal of Geodesy Volume: 86 Issue: 7 Pages: 477-497 Publication year: 2012 Publication date: Jul 2012 Year: 2012 Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media Place of publication: Berlin Country of publication: Netherlands Publication subject: Earth Sciences--Geophysics ISSN: 0949-7714 Source type: Scholarly Journals

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Language of publication: English Document type: Feature Document feature: References DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-011-0532-5 ProQuest document ID: 1021034873 Document URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1021034873?accountid=15859 Copyright: Springer-Verlag 2012 Last updated: 2012-08-28 Database: ProQuest Central

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