Tidally induced Sagnac signal in a ring laser

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 893-896

  Rautenberg, Volker ^a   Plag, Hans Peter ^a   Burns, Michael ^b   Stedman, Geoffrey E ^b   Jüttner, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEASUREMENTS; ROTATION; TIDES; DEFORMATION; RING LASERS; VECTORS; VORTICITY;

EARTH ROTATION EFFECT;

RING LASERS; ROTATION;

EARTH ROTATION; EARTH TIDE; RING LASER; SAGNAC SIGNAL; TILT; VORTICITY;

EARTH ROTATION; EARTH ROTATION VARIATIONS; EARTH SYSTEMS; GEOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HIGH-PRECISION; NORMAL VECTOR; SAGNAC EFFECT; TIDAL SIGNALS;

EID: 0030615573     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00760     Document Type: Article

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