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  1. The gravity recovery and climate experiment: Mission overview and early results (2004)
    B. D. Tapley, Srinivas Bettadpur et al. Geophysical Research Letters
  2. GRACE Measurements of Mass Variability in the Earth System (2004)
    B. D. Tapley, Srinivas Bettadpur et al. Science

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