TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boergens, Eva
A1  - Güntner, Andreas
A1  - Dobslaw, Henryk
A1  - Dahle, Christoph
T1  - Quantifying the Central European droughts in 2018 and 2019 with GRACE Follow-On
JF  - Geophysical research letters : GRL
N2  - The GRACE-FO satellites launched in May 2018 are able to quantify the water mass deficit in Central Europe during the two consecutive summer droughts of 2018 and 2019. Relative to the long-term climatology, the water mass deficits were-112 +/- 10.5 Gt in 2018 and-145 +/- 12 Gt in 2019. These deficits are 73% and 94% of the mean amplitude of seasonal water storage variations, which is so severe that a recovery cannot be expected within 1 year. The water deficits in 2018 and 2019 are the largest in the whole GRACE and GRACE-FO time span. Globally, the data do not show an offset between the two missions, which proves the successful continuation of GRACE by GRACE-FO and thus the reliability of the observed extreme events in Central Europe. This allows for a joint assessment of the four Central European droughts in 2003, 2015, 2018, and 2019 in terms of total water storage deficits.
KW  - GRACE-FO
KW  - GRACE
KW  - drought
KW  - Central European drought 2018
KW  - Central European drought 2019
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087285
SN  - 0094-8276
SN  - 1944-8007
VL  - 47
IS  - 14
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -