Non-isotropic filtering of GRACE temporal gravity for geophysical signal enhancement

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-25

  Han, Shin Chan ^a   Shum, C K ^a   Jekeli, Christopher ^a   Kuo, Chung Yen ^a   Wilson, Clark ^b,c   Seo, Ki Weon ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

GRACE; Spherical harmonics; Time variable gravity field

Indexed keywords

GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 33745230155     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02756.x     Document Type: Article

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