Earth System Mass Transport Mission (e.motion): A Concept for Future Earth Gravity Field Measurements from Space

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-163

  Panet, I ^a,b   Flury, J ^c   Biancale, R ^d   Gruber, T ^e   Johannessen, J ^f   van den Broeke, M R ^g   van Dam, T ^h   Gegout, P ^k   Hughes, C W ⁱ   Ramillien, G ^k   Sasgen, I ^j   Seoane, L ^k   Thomas, M ^j  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d CNES   (France)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

ⁱ NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^j GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^k Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

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Author keywords

Earth deformations; Earth system; Global water cycle; Mass transport; Satellite gravity

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTH (PLANET); GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVIMETERS; GRAVITATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER INTERFEROMETRY; MASS TRANSFER;

EARTH DEFORMATION; EARTH SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT MISSIONS; INTER-SATELLITE RANGING; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SATELLITE GRAVITY MISSIONS; SOLID EARTH DEFORMATION;

ORBITS;

GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; INTERFEROMETER; MAPPING METHOD; MASS TRANSPORT; SATELLITE MISSION;

EID: 84874374415     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9209-8     Document Type: Review

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