Can tidal tomography be used to unravel the long-wavelength structure of the lunar interior?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Zhong, Shijie ^a   Qin, Chuan ^a   Geruo, G ^a   Wahr, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

LONG WAVELENGTH; LUNAR INTERIOR; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MODE COUPLING; PLANETARY BODIES; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TIDAL FORCES; TIDAL FORCING; TIDAL RESPONSE;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

ASYMMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR MANTLE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; S-WAVE; TIDAL CYCLE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84865473925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052362     Document Type: Article

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