A major accomplishment of the recently completed Tropical Ocean‐Global Atmosphere
(TOGA) Program was the development of an ocean observing system to support seasonal …

▪ Abstract For technical reasons, the general circulation of the ocean has historically been
treated as a steady, laminar flow field. The recent availability of extremely high-accuracy and …

The GRACE satellite mission, scheduled for launch in 2001, is designed to map out the
Earth's gravity field to high accuracy every 2–4 weeks over a nominal lifetime of 5 years …

Bibliography Page 1 Bibliography Abbreviations frequently used: AVN Allgemeine
Vermessungsnachrichten. H. Wichmann, Karlsruhe Bull. Géod. Bulletin Géodésique, Springer …

Statistical Orbit Determination presents fundmentals of orbit determination--from weighted
least squares approaches (Gauss) to today's high-speed computer algorithms that provide …

The fifth edition of this textbook has been completely revised and significantly extended in
order to reflect the revolution of geodetic technologies, methods and applications during the …

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA), and The Ohio State University (OSU) have collaborated to develop an …

Summary Goddard Ocean Tide model GOT99. 2 is a new solution for the amplitudes and
phases of the global oceanic tides, based on over six years of sea-surface height …

Abstract The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA; formerly the Defense Mapping Agency or DMA) and The Ohio State …

In recent years, the global positioning system (GPS) has been exploited via radio occultation
techniques to obtain profiles of refractivity, temperature, pressure and water vapor in the …