Earth Gravity Field from Space — From Sensors to Earth Sciences

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 How to Climb the Gravity Wall
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   Chapter 2 Strategies for Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Orbiters Using the GPS
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   Chapter 3 Aiming at a 1-CM Orbit for Low Earth Orbiters: Reduced-Dynamic and Kinematic Precise Orbit Determination
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   Chapter 4 Space-Wise, Time-Wise, Torus and Rosborough Representations in Gravity Field Modelling
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   Chapter 5 Gravity Field Recovery from GRACE: Unique Aspects of the High Precision Inter-Satellite Data and Analysis Methods
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   Chapter 6 Global Gravity Field Recovery Using Solely GPS Tracking and Accelerometer Data from CHAMP
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   Chapter 7 The Processing of Band-Limited Measurements; Filtering Techniques in the Least Squares Context and in the Presence of Data GAPS
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   Chapter 8 Long Wavelength Sea Level and Solid Surface Perturbations Driven by Polar Ice Mass Variations: Fingerprinting Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheet Flux
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    Chapter 9 Benefits from GOCE within Solid Earth Geophysics
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    Chapter 10 The Potential of GOCE in Constraining the Structure of the Crust and Lithosphere from Post-Glacial Rebound
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    Chapter 11 Deep and Shallow Solid-Earth Structures Reconstructed with Sequential Integrated Inversion (SII) of Seismic and Gravity Data
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    Chapter 12 Present-Day Sea Level Change: Observations and Causes
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    Chapter 13 Global Ocean Data Assimilation and Geoid Measurements
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    Chapter 14 Resolution Needed for an Adequate Determination of the Mean Ocean Circulation from Altimetry and an Improved Geoid
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    Chapter 15 Error Characteristics Estimated from Champ, GRACE and GOCE Derived Geoids and from Satellite Altimetry Derived Mean Dynamic Topography
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    Chapter 16 Estimating the High-Resolution Mean Sea-Surface Velocity Field by Combined use of Altimeter and Drifter Data for Geoid Model Improvement
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    Chapter 17 Combined Use of Altimetry and in Situ Gravity Data for Coastal Dynamics Studies
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    Chapter 18 Feasibility, and Contribution to Ocean Circulation Studies, of Ocean Bottom Pressure Determination
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    Chapter 19 Impact of Geoid Improvement on Ocean Mass and Heat Transport Estimates
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    Chapter 20 How Operational Oceanography can Benefit from Dynamic Topography Estimates as Derived from Altimetry and Improved Geoid
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    Chapter 21 Remarks on the Role of Height Datum in Altimetry-Gravimetry Boundary-Value Problems
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    Chapter 22 Ocean Tides in GRACE Monthly Averaged Gravity Fields
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    Chapter 23 Tidal Models in a New Era of Satellite Gravimetry
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    Chapter 24 The Elusive Stationary Geoid
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    Chapter 25 Geodetic Methods for Calibration of GRACE and GOCE
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    Chapter 26 Benefits of GRACE and GOCE to Sea Level Studies
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    Chapter 27 What Might GRACE Contribute to Studies of Post Glacial Rebound?
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    Chapter 28 Measuring the Distribution of Ocean Mass Using GRACE
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    Chapter 29 Monitoring Changes in Continental Water Storage with GRACE
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    Chapter 30 Attitude and Drag Control: An Application to the GOCE Satellite
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    Chapter 31 On Superconductive Gravity Gradiometry in Space
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    Chapter 32 Satellite-Satellite Laser Links for Future Gravity Missions
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    Chapter 33 Possible Future Use of Laser Gravity Gradiometers
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    Chapter 34 MICROSCOPE Instrument Development, Lessons for GOCE
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    Chapter 35 Needs and Tools for Future Gravity Measuring Missions
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    Chapter 36 GOCE: ESA’s First Earth Explorer Core Mission
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    Chapter 37 Earth Gravity Field from Space — From Sensors to Earth Sciences: Closing Remarks