Geoid heights due to a crustal low viscosity zone in glacial isostatic adjustment modeling: A sensitivity analysis for GOCE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  van der Wal, W ^a   Schotman, H H A ^a,b   Vermeersen, L L A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GLACIERS; SEISMOLOGY; VISCOSITY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLACIAL ISOSTATICS; POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMIC OBSERVATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

GEOID; GLACIOISOSTASY; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; VISCOSITY;

EID: 18244422649     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019139     Document Type: Article

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