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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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Table of contents
- SATELLITE GRAVITY AND THE GEOSPHERE
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Mission Scenarios and Measurement Techniques
- 3 The Gravity Field as a Tool For Science
- 4 Ocean Dynamics and Heat Flux
- 5 Solid Earth Processes
- 6 Water Cycling
- 7 Sea-Level Change
- 8 The Dynamic Atmosphere: Unraveling the Contributions of the Earth's Subsystems
- 9 Conclusions
- Afterword
- Appendix A Spherical Harmonics: Degree Variances, Wavelengths, Upward Continuation, Anomalous Potentials, Signal and Error…
- Appendix B Modeling
- Acronyms
- References