On the gravimetric contribution to watt balance experiments

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 452-471

  Jiang, Z ^a   Palinkas V ^b   Francis, O ^c   Baumann, H ^d   Makinen J ^e   Vitushkin, L ^f   Merlet, S ^g   Tisserand, L ^a   Jousset, P ^h   Rothleitner, C ^c   Becker, M ⁱ   Robertsson, L ^a   Arias, E F ^a  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEODESY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^d FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY METAS   (Switzerland)

^e FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f D I MENDELEYEV INSTITUTE FOR METROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁱ DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; KEY COMPARISON REFERENCE VALUE; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; TEMPORAL GRAVITY VARIATIONS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

EXPERIMENTS; GRAVIMETERS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84885170119     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/5/452     Document Type: Article

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