IAG 116 - Global Gravity Field & Its Temporal Variations (1995)


IAG 116 symposia themed "Global Gravity Field & Its Temporal Variations". This publication is the proceedings of one the symposia - G3, Global Gravity Field and Its Temporal Variations. The symposia was held during the XXI General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics was held in Boulder, Colorado in July 1995. The symposium was convened and edited by RH Rapp, Anny A Cazenave (GRGS CNES Toulouse) and R Steven Nerem (Center of Space Research, U of Texas). The series editor was Wolfgang Torge.


Steve Nerem (colorado)
BSc Colorado 1982; MSc Texas, Austin 1985; PhD Texas, Austin 1989

MSc "The Use of Satellite Altimeter Data for Determining the Mean Sea Surface" - Byron Tapley
PhD "Determination of the General Ocean Circulation Using Satellite Altimetry from a Simultaneous Solution for the Earth’s Gravity Field" - Byron Tapley.



IAG 116 (Published in 1996)

Among the papers presented;


"Applications of Global Gravity Field Models in Geodesy and Oceanography" by Nerem, Kloskos & Pavlis.
"The Accuracy of Contemporary Geopotential Models and the Accuracy of Predicted Positions of Artificial Earth Satellites" by E. Wnuk, E. Wilczyilska.


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