Evidence for excitation of polar motion by fortnightly ocean tides

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1809-1812

  Gross, Richard S ^a   Hamdan, Kamal H ^a   Boggs, Dale H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETRY; KALMAN FILTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM; POLAR MOTION EXCITATION;

SEISMOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EARTH ROTATION; PLANETARY ROTATION; POLAR MOTION; TIDAL EXCITATION; TIDE; TIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; EARTH'S ROTATION; EMPIRICAL MODEL; LEAST SQUARES FITTING; LENGTH OF DAYS; OCEAN TIDE MODEL; PRESSURE CHANGE; TIDAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 0030186124     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01596     Document Type: Article

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