Study of the Earth's short-scale gravity field using the ERTM2160 gravity model

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-80

  Hirt, Christian ^a,b   Kuhn, Michael ^a   Claessens, Sten ^a   Pail, Roland ^b   Seitz, Kurt ^c   Gruber, Thomas ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forward modelling; Gravity; Gravity field; Quasi geoid; Supercomputing; Vertical deflection

Indexed keywords

FORWARD-MODELLING; GRAVITY FIELD; QUASI/GEOID; SUPERCOMPUTING; VERTICAL DEFLECTIONS;

GRAVITATION;

FORWARD MODELING; GEOID; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907494883     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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