Gravitational oscillations in the length of day

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2279-2282

  Buffett, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FREQUENCIES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

DENSITY ANOMALIES; DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL OSCILLATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION; MASS ANOMALIES;

GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING;

CORE; DAY LENGTH; EARTH ROTATION; GRAVITY; LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION; MANTLE;

EID: 0030207091     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02083     Document Type: Article

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