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Filling the gap between GRACE-and GRACE-FO-derived terrestrial water storage anomalies with Bayesian convolutional neural networks
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  • Shaoxing Mo,
  • Yulong Zhong,
  • Xiaoqing Shi,
  • Wei Feng,
  • Xin Yin,
  • Jichun Wu
Shaoxing Mo
Nanjing University
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Yulong Zhong
China University of Geosciences Faculty of Information Engineering
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Xiaoqing Shi
Nanjing University

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Wei Feng
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Xin Yin
Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute
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Jichun Wu
Nanjing University
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Abstract

There is an approximately one-year observation gap of terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSAs) between the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite and its successor GRACE Follow-On (GRACE-FO). This poses a challenge for water resources management, as discontinuity in the TWSA observations may introduce significant biases and uncertainties in hydrological model predictions and consequently mislead decision making. To tackle this challenge, a Bayesian convolutional neural network (BCNN) is proposed in this study to bridge this gap using climatic data as inputs. Enhanced by integrating recent advances in deep learning, BCNN can efficiently extract important features for TWSA predictions from multi-source input data. The predicted TWSAs are compared to the hydrological model outputs and three recent TWSA prediction products. Results suggest the superior performance of BCNN in bridging the gap. The extreme dry and wet events during the gap period are also successfully identified by BCNN.