Radial and tangential gravity rates from GRACE in areas of glacial isostatic adjustment

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 797-812

  Van der Wal, Wouter ^a   Kurtenbach, Enrico ^b   Kusche, Jürgen ^b   Vermeersen, Bert ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Rheology: mantle; Satellite geodesy; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

FENNOSCANDIA; FORWARD MODELLING; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY FIELD SOLUTION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; ICE SHEET; MANTLE VISCOSITY; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; POINT DATA; POTSDAM; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RATE OF CHANGE; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SATELLITE GEODESY; SATELLITE MISSION; SCALING FACTORS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY; TWO LAYERS; UPLIFT RATE;

GEODESY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ICE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GEODESY; GLACIOISOSTASY; GPS; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; ICE SHEET; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; SATELLITE MISSION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT;

FENNOSCANDIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80054706405     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05206.x     Document Type: Article

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