Rapid ice melting drives Earth's pole to the east

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2625-2630

  Chen, J L ^a   Wilson, C R ^a,b   Ries, J C ^a   Tapley, B D ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Rotation; GRACE; Gravity; Ice Melting; Polar Motion; Satellite

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; GEODETIC OBSERVATION; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; ICE MELTING; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; POLAR MOTION; SATELLITE GRAVITY MISSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; GRAVITATION; POLES; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

GEODETIC NETWORK; GRACE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ICE SHEET; MELTING; POLAR MOTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84879984366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50552     Document Type: Article

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