Seasonal variations in sea level induced by continental water mass: First results from GRACE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wouters, B ^a   Riva, R E M ^b   Lavallee D A ^b   Bamber, J L ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEA LEVEL;

CONTINENTAL WATERS; DIRECT OBSERVATION; DYNAMICAL EFFECTS; EARTH'S ROTATION; GRAVITATIONAL ATTRACTION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; OCEAN FLOOR; OCEAN MODEL; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SEA SURFACES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF-GRAVITATION; SOLID EARTH; SURFACE MASS; WATER CYCLE;

SEAWATER;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; COASTAL ZONE; DEFORMATION; DISTURBANCE; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER MASS;

EID: 79751500740     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046128     Document Type: Article

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