The use of mascons to resolve time-variable gravity from GRACE

International Association of Geodesy Symposia

Volumn 130, Issue , 2007, Pages 231-236

  Lemoine, F G ^a   Luthcke, S B ^a   Rowlands, D D ^a   Chinn, D S ^b   Klosko, S M ^b   Cox, C M ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental hydrology; GRACE; Mascons; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL HYDROLOGIES; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; MASCONS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

GEODESY; HYDROLOGY;

TOOLS;

EID: 84864294202     PISSN: 09399585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49350-1_35     Document Type: Review

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