Recent results on modelling the spatial and temporal structure of the Earth's gravity field

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 1009-1026

  Moore, P ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Alothman, A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity and circulation experiment; Gravity field; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

DATA SETS; EARTH SYSTEMS; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; GRACE MISSION; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY FIELD SOLUTION; IN-SITU; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; MICRO SATELLITE; OCEAN TRANSPORTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SATELLITE TRACKING; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL GRAVITY; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME VARYING; TRACKING TECHNIQUES;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 33645567156     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1751     Document Type: Article

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