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List of Abbreviations ACC Accelerometer. 23, 25, 30, 33, 34, 41–43, 45–50, 54, 57, 60, 72, 93, 95, 97, 101, 104, 106, 107, 116, 119, 128, 132, 135–137, 146, 152, 154 ACC1B Accelerometer level 1B product. 41 AHM Attitude hold mode. 74, 75, 108, 109 AOC Antenna offset correction. i, vi, ix, x, 26, 42, 43, 55, 99–102, 104–108, 110–114, 116–120, 128–132, 135–139, 141–148, 150–154 APC Antenna phase centre. i, ix–xi, 25–27, 45, 55, 57, 100–103, 120, 128–130, 132, 136–138, 140, 152, 154 BiCGSTAB Biconjugate gradient stabilized method. 38 COM Center of mass. 23, 25, 26, 58, 140 CRF Celestial reference frame. 25, 26, 44, 86, 100, 102, 116, 132 D/O Degree and order. 52, 74, 76, 88, 129, 130, 141, 150, 154 DCT Discrete cosine transform. 63, 64 DLR is the german aerospace center (german: “Deutsches Zentrum fu¨r Luft und Raumfahrt”), the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1, 23, 28 EWH Equivalent water height. x, xi, 18, 120, 141, 143–145, 147, 148 GFZ is the German Research Centre for Geosciences (german: “Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum”), the german national research centre for Earth sciences. 28, 41 GIA Glacial isostatic adjustment. 15, 16 GOCE Gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer. 96 GOCO05s is a combined gravity field solution giving mean, trend, annular, and semi-annular components of Earth’s gravitational potentiel. GOCO05s is computed using data from multiple dedicated space geodetic satellite missions. 49, 88, 93, 141, 157 GPS Global positioning system. 24, 29, 33, 43, 49, 56, 74 GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. i, v–vii, ix, 1–3, 11, 15–17, 19, 20, 23–30, 32, 34, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48–50, 54, 56, 61, 72, 74, 79, 84, 88, 93–97, 99, 100, 107, 108, 110, 111, 116, 117, 119, 120, 128–130, 132, 133, 136, 140, 141, 150, 152–154, 158 GRACE-FO Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On. i, 1, 2, 41, 79, 80, 94–97, 153–155 GROOPS is the Gravity Recovery Object Oriented Programming System, an in-house multi-purpose geodetic software suite developed at IfG. 41, 43, 66, 69, 71, 129 157