Weighing the ocean: Using a single mooring to measure changes in the mass of the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Hughes, Chris W ^a   Tamisiea, Mark E ^a   Bingham, Rory J ^b   Williams, Joanne ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL MEAN; DIRECT MEASURES; EARTH MODELS; EARTH SYSTEMS; GEODETIC CONSTRAINTS; GLOBAL DATA; INTERANNUAL; NOISE LEVELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER EQUIVALENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BOTTOM PRESSURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODESY; GRAVITY FIELD; MOORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; SENSOR; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865749350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052935     Document Type: Article

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