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+* [Installation](#installation)
 * [Usage](#usage)
 * [Performance](#performance)
 * [Files](#files)
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 **Darbeheshti N., Wöske F., Weigelt M., McCullough C., Wu H. (2018) GRACETOOLS - GRACE gravity field recovery tools, Geosciences.**
 
+## Installation
+
+Download gracetools as a zip file and extract it somewhere on your computer.
+- [gracetools.zip](https://gitlab.aei.uni-hannover.de/geoq/gracetools/-/archive/master/gracetools-master.zip)
+
+Or clone the repository with `git clone`:
+
+```
+$ git clone git@gitlab.aei.uni-hannover.de:geoq/gracetools.git
+```
 
 ## Usage