Preliminary observations of global ocean mass variations with GRACE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Chambers, Don P ^a   Wahr, John ^b   Nerem, R Steven ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Coop Inst for Res in Envrn Sci ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; GRAVITATION; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES;

OCEAN MASS; STERIC VARIATIONS; WATER MASSES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GLOBAL OCEAN; MASS BALANCE; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

EARTH SYSTEMS; EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD; GLOBAL MEAN SEA LEVELS; MASS VARIATIONS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS; SCIENCE MISSIONS; TIME VARIABLE;

EID: 4544382260     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020461     Document Type: Article

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