Michael Watkins
Professor of Aerospace and Geophysics; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Keck Institute for Space Studies; Director, Keck Institute for Space Studies
Remote sensing sensors and advanced analysis techniques for Earth and planetary science, with special focus on the use of temporally varying gravity field data associated with mass movement, and with applications to oceanography, glaciology, and hydrology.
Publications
Extending the Global Mass Change Data Record: GRACE Follow‐On Instrument and Science Data Performance. Geophysical Research Letters. 47. 10.1029/2020GL088306. (Felix W. Landerer, Frank M. Flechtner, Himanshu Save, Frank H. Webb, Tamara Bandikova, William I. Bertiger, Srinivas V. Bettadpur, Sung Hun Byun, Christoph Dahle, Henryk Dobslaw, Eugene Fahnestock, Nate Harvey, Zhigui Kang, Gerhard L. H. Kruizinga, Bryant D. Loomis, Christopher McCullough, Michael Murböck, Peter Nagel, Meegyeong Paik, Nadege Pie, Steve Poole, Dmitry Strekalov, Mark E. Tamisiea, Furun Wang, Michael M. Watkins, Hui-Ying Wen, David N. Wiese, Dah-Ning Yuan) (2020)
GRACE Follow‐On Laser Ranging Interferometer Measurements Uniquely Distinguish Short‐Wavelength Gravitational Perturbations. Geophysical Research Letters. 47. 10.1029/2020GL089445. (Ghobadi-Far, Khosro , Han, Shin-Chan , McCullough, Christopher , Wiese, D. , Yuan, Dah‐Ning , Landerer, Felix , Sauber, Jeanne , Watkins, Michael) (2020)
Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change. Nature Climate Change. 5. 10.1038/s41558-019-0456-2. (Tapley, Byron, Watkins, Michael , Flechtner, Frank , Reigber, Christoph , Bettadpur, Srinivas , Rodell, Matthew , Sasgen, Ingo , Famiglietti, James , Landerer, Felix , Chambers, Don , Reager, JT , Gardner, Alex , Save, Himanshu , Ivins, Erik , Swenson, Sean , Boening, Carmen , Dahle, Christoph , Wiese, D. , Dobslaw, Henryk , Velicogna, Isabella) (2019).
Gravity field of the Orientale basin from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission. (Zuber, M.T., D.E. Smith, G.A. Neumann, S. Goossens, J. Andrews-Hanna, J. Head, W.S. Kiefer, S.Asmar, A.S. Konopliv, F.G. Lemoine, I. Matsuyama, J. Melosh, P. McGovern, F. Nimmo, R.J. Phillips, S.C. Solomon, G. Taylor, M.M. Watkins, M.A. Wieczorek, and D.N. Yuan,), (2016). Science. 354. 438-441. 10.1126/science.aag0519.
Quantifying and reducing leakage errors in the JPL RL05M GRACE mascon solution, (Wiese, D. N., F. W. Landerer, and M. M. Watkins) (2016), Water Resour. Res., 52, 7490–7502, doi:10.1002/2016WR019344.
Antarctic tides from GRACE satellite accelerations (Wiese, D.N., B. Killett, M. M.Watkins, and D.-N. Yuan (2016), J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, doi:10.1002/ 2015JC011488.
Improved Detection of Tides at Europa with radiometric and optical tracking during flybys, Planetary and Space Science 04/2015; 112. DOI:10.1016/j.pss.2015.04.005 (R. Park et al)
North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variations from GRACE ocean bottom pressure anomalies, Geophysical Research Letters (2015). DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065730 (Landerer, F, D. Wiese, K. Bentel, C. Boening, M. M. Watkins)
Improved methods for observing Earth's time variable mass distribution with GRACE using spherical cap mascons. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth (2015), 120, 2648–2671. doi: 10.1002/2014JB011547. (Watkins, M.M., DN Wiese, D-N Yuan, C Boening, and FW Landerer