Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere
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Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere

Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes

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eBook - ePub

Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere

Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes

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About this book

For the past three decades, it has been possible to measure the earth's static gravity from satellites. Such measurements have been used to address many important scientific problems, including the earth's internal structure, and geologically slow processes like mantle convection. In principle, it is possible to resolve the time-varying component of the gravity field by improving the accuracy of satellite gravity measurements.These temporal variations are caused by dynamic processes that change the mass distribution in the earth, oceans, and atmosphere. Acquisition of improved time-varying gravity data would open a new class of important scientific problems to analysis, including crustal motions associated with earthquakes and changes in groundwater levels, ice dynamics, sea-level changes, and atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns.This book evaluates the potential for using satellite technologies to measure the time-varying component of the gravity field and assess the utility of these data for addressing problems of interest to the earth sciences, natural hazards, and resource communities.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
1997
eBook ISBN
9780309174763
Edition
0
Topic
Physical Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. COMMITTEE ON EARTH GRAVITY FROM SPACE
  3. U.S. GEODYNAMICS COMMITTEE
  4. BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES
  5. COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES
  6. Preface
  7. Contents
  8. Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere
  9. Executive Summary
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Mission Scenarios and Measurement Techniques
  12. 3 The Gravity Field as a Tool For Science
  13. 4 Ocean Dynamics and Heat Flux
  14. 5 Solid Earth Processes
  15. 6 Water Cycling
  16. 7 Sea-Level Change
  17. 8 The Dynamic Atmosphere: Unraveling the Contributions of the Earth'sSubsystems
  18. 9 Conclusions
  19. Afterword
  20. Appendix A Spherical Harmonics: Degree Variances, Wavelengths, Upward Continuation,Anomalous Potentials, Signal and Error Spectra, and Gaussian Averages
  21. Appendix B Modeling
  22. Acronym
  23. References