Normal Morlet wavelet transform and its application to the Earth's polar motion

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Lintao ^a,b   Hsu, Houtse ^a   Grafarend, Erik W ^b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANDLER WOBBLE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLAR MOTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348884286     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004895     Document Type: Article

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