Rate My Professor Torsten Mayer-Gürr

Mayer-Gürr's research centers on analytical and numerical methods in theoretical geodesy and satellite geodesy. His group processes globally distributed satellite data from missions such as GRACE, GRACE-FO, GOCE, and Swarm to determine Earth's gravity field and produce high-resolution regional geoid models by combining satellite data with terrestrial observations. Key efforts include investigating temporal gravity variations due to mass transport from ocean tides, sea level rise, groundwater fluctuations, and ice mass changes, linking these to applications in oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and geophysics. He provides precise orbit products for low Earth orbit satellites. Mayer-Gürr is the lead developer of GROOPS, a software toolkit for gravity field recovery and GNSS processing, detailed in Mayer-Gürr et al. (2021, Computers & Geosciences). Notable publications include Kvas et al. (2019, 'ITSG-Grace2018: Overview and Evaluation of a New GRACE Gravity-Field Product,' Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth), Kvas et al. (2021, 'GOCO06s – a satellite-only global gravity field model,' Earth System Science Data), and contributions to daily GRACE gravity snapshots (Kurtenbach et al., 2009, Geophysical Research Letters). His gravity field models and software are widely used for monitoring hydrological extremes, drought conditions in Europe, and climate-related mass changes. He contributes to international efforts in satellite geodesy, including benchmark data and orbit products publicly available from the Institute of Geodesy.