A comparison of recent Earth gravitational models with emphasis on their contribution in refining the gravity and geoid at continental or regional scale

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 643-660

  Arabelos, D N ^a   Tscherning, C C ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Earth gravitational model; Empirical covariance functions; Propagated commission error

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOID; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; MAPPING; MODELING;

EID: 77958477283     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-010-0397-z     Document Type: Article

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