On the stability of a geodetic no-net-rotation frame and its implication for the International Terrestrial Reference Frame

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Kreemer, Corné ^a   Lavallée, David A ^b   Blewitt, Geoffrey ^a,b   Holt, William E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

INTERNATIONAL TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME (ITRF); NO NET ROTATION (NNR) MODEL; SURFACE VELOCITY; VELOCITY DATA SET;

GEODESY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GEODETIC NETWORK; PLATE BOUNDARY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845626069     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027058     Document Type: Article

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