Fortnightly Earth rotation, ocean tides and mantle anelasticity

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 400-413

  Ray, Richard D ^a   Egbert, Gary D ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth rotation variations; Mantle processes; Tides and planetary waves

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ANELASTICITY; EARTH ROTATION; ELASTIC BODY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; IN-LINE; JASON-1; MANTLE PROCESSES; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN TIDES; POLAR MOTION; TIDAL CURRENTS; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; EARTH (PLANET); OCEAN CURRENTS; TIDES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ANELASTICITY; CURRENT VELOCITY; EARTH ROTATION; GEODESY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MANTLE PROCESS; OCEAN TIDE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR MOTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING;

EID: 84858624913     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05351.x     Document Type: Article

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