Determination of the Earth's structure in Fennoscandia from GRACE and implications for the optimal post-processing of GRACE data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1295-1310

  Steffen, Holger ^a   Wu, Patrick ^a   Wang, Hansheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Composition of the mantle; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; Gravity anomalies and Earth structure; Numerical solutions; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION OF THE MANTLE; EUROPE; GRAVITY ANOMALIES AND EARTH STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SATELLITE GEODESY;

DATA HANDLING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; SEA LEVEL; SPACE SHUTTLES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURVEYING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EARTH STRUCTURE; GEODESY; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; VISCOSITY;

FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 77955836657     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04718.x     Document Type: Article

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