Global maps of the step-wise topography corrected and crustal components stripped geoids using the CRUST 2.0 model

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Tenzer, Robert ^a   Hamayun, ^b   Vajda, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Crust; Forward modeling; Geoid; Interpretation; Isostasy; Stripping

Indexed keywords

FORWARD MODELING; GEOID; ISOSTASY; MOHO; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 67650699736     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10126-009-0001-9     Document Type: Article

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