Optimal locations for absolute gravity measurements and sensitivity of GRACE observations for constraining glacial isostatic adjustment on the northern hemisphere

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1483-1494

  Steffen, Holger ^a   Wu, Patrick ^a   Wang, Hansheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Composition of the mantle; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Europe; Gravity anomalies and Earth structure; North America; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE GRAVITY; ARCTIC CANADA; DENSE NETWORK; EARTH PARAMETERS; EARTH STRUCTURES; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GLACIATION HISTORY; GRAVITY CHANGES; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; HIGH LATITUDES; ICE MODEL; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MANTLE VISCOSITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; RATE OF CHANGE; SATELLITE GEODESY; SENSITIVE AREA; SENSITIVITY MAP; STATION NETWORK; THREE PARAMETERS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAVITATION; ICE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GEODESY; GEODYNAMICS; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY SURVEY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84865304653     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05563.x     Document Type: Article

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