Effect of the pacific ocean on the earth's seasonal wobble inferred from National Center for Environmental Prediction ocean analysis data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 10131-10140

  Furuya, Masato ^a   Hamano, Yozo ^b  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH WOBBLE; OCEANIC INFLUENCE; POLAR MOTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032503189     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb03531     Document Type: Article

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