Seasonal hydrological loading in southern Alaska observed by GPS and GRACE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Fu, Yuning ^a   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^a   Jensen, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GPS DATA; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LOAD CHANGE; OCEAN LOADING; REDUCTION RATIOS; SEASONAL MODELS; SEASONAL PERIODS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WEAK CORRELATION;

LOADING;

DATA SET; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; GRACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865525587     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052453     Document Type: Article

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