Effect of changes in total atmospheric mass on length-of-day modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  De Viron, O ^a   Dickey, J O ^b   Marcus, S L ^b  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EARTH'S ROTATION; EVAPORATION/PRECIPITATION; LENGTH OF DAYS; LIQUID CORES; MASS CLOSURE; MASS EXCHANGE;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 0036768636     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015572     Document Type: Article

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