Measuring the effect of local water storage changes on in situ gravity observations: Case study of the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell, Germany

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Creutzfeldt, Benjamin ^a   Güntner, Andreas ^a   Thoss, Heiko ^a   Merz, Bruno ^a   Wziontek, Hartmut ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANY; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY RESPONSE; HIGH PRECISION; HYDROLOGICAL METHODS; IN-SITU; KEY COMPONENT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SNOW STORAGE; STORAGE COMPONENT; SUPERCONDUCTING GRAVIMETER; TEMPORAL GRAVITY; WATER STORAGE;

BUILDINGS; GEODESY; GRAVIMETERS; GROUNDWATER; OBSERVATORIES; SNOW;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAPROLITE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TOPSOIL; WATER STORAGE;

GERMANY;

EID: 77950619342     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008359     Document Type: Article

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