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PAPERBACK list:$39.00 Web:$35.10 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $30.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales Other Related Titles Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes (1997) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 105   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Acronym ACC Antarctic Circumpolar Current CIGAR Consortium for Investigation on Gravity Anomaly Recovery ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts EGM96 Earth Geopotential Model (1996) ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation ERS-1 European Remote Sensing Satellite-1 ESA European Space Agency GCIP GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project GCM General Circulation Model Geosat Geodesy Satellite GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System GPS Global Positioning System GPS/MET GPS Meteorology Satellite IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change JGM Joint Gravity Model LAGEOS Laser Geodynamics Satellite NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NRC National Research Council PSD Power Spectral Density RMS Root Mean Square SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar SGG Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer SGGE Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer Extended SSI Satellite to Satellite Interferometry SST Satellite to Satellite Tracking TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment WBC Western Boundary Current WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment Page 105 FRONT MATTER (R1-R14) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (1-6) 1 INTRODUCTION (7-14) 2 MISSION SCENARIOS AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES (15-28) 3 THE GRAVITY FIELD AS A TOOL FOR SCIENCE (29-34) 4 OCEAN DYNAMICS AND HEAT FLUX (35-46) 5 SOLID EARTH PROCESSES (47-58) 6 WATER CYCLING (59-66) 7 SEA-LEVEL CHANGE (67-78) 8 THE DYNAMIC ATMOSPHERE: UNRAVELING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE EARTH'S SUBSYSTEMS (79-86) 9 CONCLUSIONS (87-88) AFTERWORD (89-90) APPENDIX A (91-98) APPENDIX B (99-104) ACRONYMS (105-106) REFERENCES (107-112)

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Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and its Fluid Envelope Acronym ACC Antarctic Circumpolar Current CIGAR Consortium for Investigation on Gravity Anomaly Recovery ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts EGM96 Earth Geopotential Model (1996) ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation ERS-1 European Remote Sensing Satellite-1 ESA European Space Agency GCIP GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project GCM General Circulation Model Geosat Geodesy Satellite GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System GPS Global Positioning System GPS/MET GPS Meteorology Satellite IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change JGM Joint Gravity Model LAGEOS Laser Geodynamics Satellite NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NRC National Research Council PSD Power Spectral Density RMS Root Mean Square SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar SGG Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer SGGE Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer Extended SSI Satellite to Satellite Interferometry SST Satellite to Satellite Tracking TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment WBC Western Boundary Current WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment

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