Comparison of the Micro-g LaCoste gPhone-054 spring gravimeter and the GWR-C026 superconducting gravimeter in Strasbourg (France) using a 300-day time series

Metrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-39

  Riccardi, U ^a,b   Rosat, S ^b   Hinderer, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE GRAVITY; CO-LOCATED; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CRITICAL POINTS; DRIFT RATES; GRAVITY CHANGES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; LONG TERM STABILITY; NOISE LEVELS; NON-LINEAR; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; SPECTRAL BAND; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SUPERCONDUCTING GRAVIMETER; THERMAL SYSTEMS;

SEISMOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES;

GRAVIMETERS;

EID: 79551476592     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/1/003     Document Type: Article

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