Analysis of gravity field variations derived from superconducting gravimeter recordings, the GRACE satellite and hydrological models at selected European sites

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 505-518

  Neumeyer, Juergen ^a   Barthelmes, F ^a   Kroner, C ^b   Petrovic, S ^a   Schmidt, R ^a   Virtanen, H ^c   Wilmes, H ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy BKG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation; Cross validation; EOF; GRACE; Hydrological models; Superconducting gravimetry; Temporal gravity variations

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA SET; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 46749118842     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352817     Document Type: Article

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