Errors of regional mass variations inferred from GRACE monthly solutions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Horwath, Martin ^a   Dietrich, Reinhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS;

ERROR CORRELATIONS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT; REGIONALLY AVERAGED MASS VARIATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AMAZON BASIN; ANTARCTICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646846497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025550     Document Type: Article

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