Earth Gravity Field from Space - from Sensors to Earth Sciences

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• How to Climb the Gravity Wall.
• Strategies for Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Orbiters Using the GPS.
• Aiming at a 1-cm Orbit for Low Earth Orbiters: Reduced-Dynamic and Kinematic Precise Orbit Determination.
• Space-Wise, Time-Wise, Torus and Rosborough Representations in Gravity Field Modelling.
• Gravity Field Recovery From GRACE: Unique Aspects of the High Precision Inter-Satellite Data and Analysis Methods.
• Global Gravity Field Recovery Using Solely GPS Tracking and Accelerometer Data from CHAMP.
• The Processing of Band-Limited Measurements: Filtering Techniques in the Least Squares Context and in the Presence of Data Gaps.
• Long Wavelength Sea Level and Solid Surface Perturbations Driven by Polar Ice Mass Variations: Fingerprinting Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheet Flux.
• Benefits From GOCE within Solid Earth Geophysics.
• The Potential of GOCE in Constraining the Structure of the Crust and Lithosphere from Post-Glacial Rebound.
• Deep and Shallow Solid-Earth Structures Reconstructed with Sequential Integrated Inversion (SII) of Seismic and Gravity Data.
• Present-Day Sea Level Change: Observations and Causes.
• Global Ocean Data Assimilation and Geoid Measurements.
• Resolution Needed for an Adequate Determination of the Mean Ocean Circulation from Altimetry and an Improved Geoid.
• Error Characteristics Estimated from CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE Derived Geoids and from Satellite Altimetry Derived Mean Dynamic Topography.
• Estimating the High-Resolution Mean Sea-Surface Velocity Field by Combined Use of Altimeter and Drifter Data for Geoid Model Improvement.
• Combined Use of Altimetry and In Situ Gravity Data for Coastal Dynamics Studies.
• Feasibility, and Contribution to Ocean Circulation Studies, of Ocean Bottom Pressure Determination.
• Impact of Geoid Improvementon Ocean Mass and Heat Transport Estimates.
• How Operational Oceanography can Benefit from Dynamic Topography Estimates as Derived From Altimetry and Improved Geoid.
• Remarks on the Role of Height Datum in Altimetry-Gravimetry Boundary-Value Problems.
• Ocean Tides In GRACE Monthly Averaged Gravity Fields.
• Tidal Models in a New Era of Satellite Gravimetry.
• The Elusive Stationary Geoid.
• Geodetic Methods for Calibration of GRACE and GOCE.
• Benefits of GRACE and GOCE to Sea Level Studies.
• What Might GRACE Contribute to Studies of Post Glacial Reboud?.
• Measuring the Distribution of Ocean Mass Using GRACE.
• Monitoring Changes in Continental Water Storage with GRACE.
• Attitude and Drag Control: An Application to the GOCE Satellite.
• On Superconductive Gravity Gradiometry in Space.
• Satellite-Satellite Laser Links for Future Gravity Missions.
• Possible Future Use of Laser Gravity Gradiometers.
• MICROSCOPE Instrument Development, Lessons for GOCE.
• Needs and Tools for Future Gravity Measuring Missions.
• GOCE: ESA’s First Earth Explorer Core Mission.
• Earth Gravity Field From Space — From Sensors to Earth Sciences: Closing Remarks.
• Author Index.
• List of Participants.