Gravity changes due to the Sumatra-Andaman and Nias earthquakes as detected by the GRACE satellites: A reexamination

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 733-747

  Einarsson, I ^a   Hoechner, A ^a   Wang, R ^a   Kusche, J ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics: gravity and tectonics; Satellite geodesy; Time variable gravity; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

ANDAMAN SEA; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CALIBRATED MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECORRELATIONS; DISLOCATION THEORY; FAST PROCESS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GEOPOTENTIALS; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; INPUT DATAS; MODEL PARAMETERS; RELAXATION EFFECT; SATELLITE GEODESY; SLIP MODEL; SUMATRA; SUMATRA-ANDAMAN EARTHQUAKE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY; TRANSIENT DEFORMATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SURVEYING; TECTONICS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; GEOID; GPS; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; NIAS EARTHQUAKE 2005; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ANDAMAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77958529137     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04756.x     Document Type: Article

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