Reducing errors in the GRACE gravity solutions using regularization

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 695-711

  Save, Himanshu ^a   Bettadpur, Srinivas ^a   Tapley, Byron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

GRACE; L curve criterion; Lanczos bidiagonalization; Regularization; Tikhonov regularization; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865461236     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-012-0548-5     Document Type: Article

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