Increased water storage in North America and Scandinavia from GRACE gravity data

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-42

  Wang, Hansheng ^a   Jia, Lulu ^a,b,c   Steffen, Holger ^d,e   Wu, Patrick ^d   Jiang, Liming ^a   Hsu, Houtse ^a   Xiang, Longwei ^a,b   Wang, Zhiyong ^f   Hu, Bo ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c National Earthquake Infrastructure Service   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e Geodetic Infrastructure   (Sweden)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GLACIAL HISTORY; GRACE; MANTLE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VISCOSITY; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE;

NORTH AMERICA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 84871551643     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1652     Document Type: Article

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