Impact of short period, non-tidal, temporal mass variability on GRACE gravity estimates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Thompson, P F ^a   Bettadpur, S V ^a   Tapley, B D ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR CORRECTION; GRAVITATION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTINENTAL HYDROLOGY; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT (GRACE); NON-TIDAL TEMPORAL MASS VARIABILITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC MODE; GRAVITY FIELD; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 18544411836     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019285     Document Type: Article

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