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Next Generation Gravity Missions (NGGMs) are planned to extend this record in the near future. Based on a multi-model ensemble of climate model output provided by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) covering the years 2002\u20132100, we assess possible changes in TWS variability with respect to present-day conditions to help defining scientific requirements for NGGMs. We find that present-day GRACE accuracies are sufficient to detect amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal cycle in a third of the land surface, whereas a five times more accurate double-pair mission could resolve such changes almost everywhere outside the most arid landscapes of our planet. We also select one individual model experiment out of the CMIP6 ensemble that closely matches both GRACE observations and the multi-model median of all CMIP6 realizations, which might serve as basis for satellite mission performance studies extending over many decades to demonstrate the suitability of NGGM satellite missions to monitor long-term climate variations in the terrestrial water cycle.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12233898","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]],"date-time":"2020-11-27T09:16:49Z","timestamp":1606468609000},"page":"3898","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Emerging Changes in Terrestrial Water Storage Variability as a Target for Future Satellite Gravity Missions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8318-791X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Laura","family":"Jensen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Geodesy and Geoinformatics, HafenCity University, 20457 Hamburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9087-1445","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Annette","family":"Eicker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geodesy and Geoinformatics, HafenCity University, 20457 Hamburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1776-3314","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Henryk","family":"Dobslaw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), 14473 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4364-4012","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roland","family":"Pail","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, 80333 M\u00fcnchen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2015JD023808","DOI":"10.1002\/2015JD023808","article-title":"Does GRACE see the terrestrial water cycle \u201cintensifying\u201d?","volume":"121","author":"Eicker","year":"2016","journal-title":"J. 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