Dense GPS array as a new sensor of seasonal changes of surface loads

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 150, Issue , 2004, Pages 177-196

  Heki, Kosuke ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 85040520261     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/150GM15     Document Type: Chapter

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