A global assessment of accelerations in surface mass transport

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6716-6723

  Wu, Xiaoping ^a   Heflin, Michael B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

geocenter motion; GRACE gravity; sea level; surface mass transport

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL;

GEOCENTER MOTION; GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT MISSIONS; NEGATIVE ACCELERATION; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; SURFACE MASS TRANSPORT;

GRAVITATION;

ACCELERATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRACE; GRAVITY; NAVIGATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; UNITED STATES; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84941733943     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064941     Document Type: Article

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