Nontidal oceanic contribution to length-of-day changes estimated from two ocean models during 1992-2001

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Yan, Haoming ^a   Zhong, Min ^a   Zhu, Yaozhong ^a   Liu, Lintao ^a   Cao, Xianhe ^b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAY LENGTH; OCEAN; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRESSURE;

EID: 33645472273     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003538     Document Type: Article

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