Thermospheric density from analysis of 6-year GRACE accelerometer data

AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cheng, Minkang ^a   Tapley, Byron D ^a   Bettadpur, Srinivas ^a   Ries, John C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER DATA; ACCELEROMETER MEASUREMENT; DENSITY MODELS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC INDICES; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; NRLMSIS-00; POLAR ORBIT; SATELLITE ORBIT; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SPATIAL FEATURES; THERMOSPHERIC DENSITY;

ACCELEROMETERS; ASTROPHYSICS; GEOMAGNETISM; SOLAR ENERGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 78651334519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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