Gravity of the Arctic Ocean from satellite data with validations using airborne gravimetry: Oceanographic implications

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 917-930

  McAdoo, David C ^b   Farrell, Sinead Louise ^a,b,d   Laxon, Seymour ^c   Ridout, Andy ^c   Zwally, H J ^d   Yi, Donghui ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GRAVIMETERS; GRAVITATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NASA; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; TECTONICS;

AIRBORNE GRAVIMETRY; AIRBORNE GRAVITIES; LONG WAVELENGTH; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; MEAN SEA SURFACES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ENVISAT-1; ERROR ANALYSIS; GOME; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; ICESAT; MAPPING; NOISE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PRECISION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84878936255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20080     Document Type: Article

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