Constrained Regional Recovery of Continental Water Mass Time-variations from GRACE-based Geopotential Anomalies over South America

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 887-905

  Ramillien, G L ^a,f   Seoane, L ^a   Frappart, F ^a   Biancale, R ^a,b   Gratton, S ^c   Vasseur, X ^d   Bourgogne, S ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c IRIT   (France)

^d CERFACS   (France)

^e Noveltis   (France)

^f OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Continental hydrology; Regularization methods; Time varying gravity field

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL WATER STORAGE; CONTINENTAL WATERS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENCE OF POTENTIAL; FIRST LAW; GEOPOTENTIALS; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; INTEGRAL METHOD; LEAST-SQUARES APPROACH; REGIONAL MAPS; REGULARIZATION METHODS; SATELLITE ALTITUDES; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; STATIC FIELDS; TIME VARIATIONS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GEOPOTENTIAL; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84864301682     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9177-z     Document Type: Article

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