On the nature of GPS draconitic year periodic pattern in multivariate position time series

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2500-2511

  Amiri Simkooei, A R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPS draconitic year period; Multivariate harmonic estimation; Permanent GPS station velocity; temporal and spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; GPS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLATE TECTONICS; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84880747091     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50199     Document Type: Article

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