Incessant excitation of the Earth's free oscillations: Global comparison of superconducting gravimeter records

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-297

  Nawa, Kazunari ^a   Suda, Naoki ^b   Fukao, Yoshio ^c   Sato, Tadahiro ^d   Tamura, Yoshiaki ^d   Shibuya, Kazuo ^e   McQueen, Herbert ^f   Virtanen, Heikki ^g   Kääriäinen, Jussi ^g  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Background free oscillations; GEOSCOPE; IDA; Noise level; SG

Indexed keywords

GRAVIMETRY; NOISE; OSCILLATION;

EID: 0033915377     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(00)00158-8     Document Type: Article

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