Estimation of the Earth's tensor of inertia from recent global gravity field solutions

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 76, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 495-509

  Marchenko, A N ^a   Schwintzer, P ^b  

^a LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic ellipticity; Dynamic reference frame; Earth's tensor of inertia; Figure of the Earth; Global gravity field model

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GRAVITY FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INERTIA; SECULAR VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0036488185     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-002-0280-7     Document Type: Article

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