Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors to Volume 3 ....................................... xi
Editorial Advisory Board ..................................... xiii
Geodesy
3.01. Overview .................................................. 1
T. A. Herring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, USA
3.02. Potential Theory and Static Gravity Field of the Earth ... 11
C. Jekeli, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,
USA
3.03. Gravimetric Methods - Absolute Gravimeter: Instruments
Concepts and Implementation .............................. 43
T. Niebauer, Migro-g Solutions Inc., Erie, CO, USA
3.04. Gravimetric Methods - Superconducting Gravity Meters ..... 65
J. Hinderer, Institut de Physique du Globe,
Strasbourg France
D. Crossley, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO,
USA
R.J. Warburton, GIVR Instruments, San Diego, CA,
USA
3.05. Gravimetric Methods - Spacecraft Altimeter
Measurements ............................................ 123
D.P. Chambers, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX, USA
3.06. Earth Tides ............................................. 163
D.C. Agnew, University of California San Diego,
San Diego, CA, USA
3.07. Time Variable Gravity: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment ..... 197
J.X. Mitrovica and K. Latychev, University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
M.E. Tamisiea, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
3.08. Time Variable Gravity from Satellites ................... 213
J.M. Wahr, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co,
USA
3.09. Earth Rotation Variations - Long Period ................. 239
R.S. Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
3.10. Earth Rotation Variations ............................... 295
V. Dehant, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels,
Belgium
P.M. Mathews, University of Madras, Chennai, India
3.11. GPS and Space-Based Geodetic Methods .................... 351
G. Blewitt, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
3.12. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Geodesy ........ 391
M. Simons and P. A. Rosen, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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