Observations of tidally coherent diurnal and semidiurnal variations in the geocenter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2231-2234

  Watkins, Michael M ^a   Eanes, Richard J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEODESY;

GEOCENTER; NEARLY DIURNAL RETROGRADE MOTIONS; SPACE GEODESY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; EARTH TIDE; GEOCENTRE; GEODESY; SEMIDIURNAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031225138     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL52059     Document Type: Article

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