Present-day secular variations in the low-degree harmonics of the geopotential: Sensitivity analysis on spherically symmetric earth models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Tamisiea, M E ^a   Mitrovica, J X ^a   Tromp, J ^b   Milne, G A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geoid; GIA; Secular; Stokes coefficients

Indexed keywords

GEOPOTENTIAL; ISOSTASY; PLEISTOCENE; SECULAR VARIATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 17144469338     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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