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PAPERBACK price:$39.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Understanding the Changing Planet:Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences Precise Geodetic Infrastructure:National Requirements for a Shared Resource 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) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format 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. Citation Manager . "AFTERWORD." Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997. Please select a format: Page 89   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore 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. Afterword As this report was entering review, NASA announced plans to fly the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a three- to five-year gravity mission that is very similar to the generic SST mission described in this report. The satellites are scheduled to be launched in 2001. Page 89 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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