Inference of mantle viscosity from GRACE and relative sea level data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 497-508

  Paulson, Archie ^a,b   Zhong, Shijie ^a   Wahr, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion; Mantle viscosity; Post glacial rebound; Time varying gravity

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL REBOUND; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY SURVEY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOSITY;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 35348853763     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03556.x     Document Type: Article

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