Satellite gravity: Insights into the Solid Earth and its fluid envelope Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Earth is a dynamic system. It has a fluid, mobile atmosphere and oceans; a continually changing distribution of ice, snow, and groundwater; a fluid core undergoing hydromagnetic motion; a mantle undergoing both thermal convection and rebound from glacial loading of the last ice age; and mobile tectonic plates. These processes affect the distribution of mass in the Earth and produce variations in the Earth's gravitational field (Figure 1) on a variety of spatial and temporal scales (Figure 2) . Highly accurate measurements of the Earth's gravity field made with appropriate spatial and temporal sampling can thus be used to better understand the processes that move mass within the Earth and above its surface.

publication date

  • May 19, 1998

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • June 28, 2014 3:35 AM

Full Author List

  • Dickey JO; Bentley CR; Bilham R; Carton JA; Eanes RJ; Herring TA; Kaula WM; Lagerloef GSE; Rojstaczer S; Smith WHF

author count

  • 13

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0096-3941

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 2324-9250

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 237

end page

  • 243

volume

  • 79

issue

  • 20