Constraints on Q at long periods from Earth's rotation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 211-214

  Dickman, S R ^a   Nam, Young S ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; TSUNAMIS;

ANELASTICITY; CHANDLER WOBBLES; CORE-MANTLE; EARTH'S ROTATION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; LENGTH OF DAYS; LOVE NUMBERS; TIDAL SIGNALS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES;

EARTH ROTATION; LOVE NUMBER;

EID: 0031646803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03559     Document Type: Article

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