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Two years of continuous measurements of tidal and nontidal variations of gravity in Boulder, Colorado
VAN DAM, Tonie; FRANCIS, Olivier
1998In Geophysical Research Letters, 25 (3), p. 393-396
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Keywords :
superconducting gravity; ocean tides; solid earth tides
Abstract :
[en] We report here on the results of an analysis of 2 years of data from NOAA’s superconducting gravimeter located at the Table Mountain Gravity Observatory in Boulder, Colorado. Observed tidal parameters, corrected for ocean loading effects, are compared with theoretical tidal parameters predicted for a non-hydrostatic inelastic Earth model and demonstrate excellent agreement. Tidal residuals, corrected for polar motion and a linear instrument drift are highly correlated with gravity changes measured by two absolute gravimeters over the same time period. The admittance to local pressure i s found to be -0.356 mGal/mbar. However, this admittance factor is found to be seasonally and frequency dependent. Correlations between rainfall events and gravity changes are observed. Attempts to model these gravity changes as exponential functions of time were unsuccessful.
Disciplines :
Physics
Earth sciences & physical geography
Identifiers :
UNILU:UL-ARTICLE-2008-836
Author, co-author :
VAN DAM, Tonie ;  NOAA/NGS and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder
FRANCIS, Olivier  ;  Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Bruxelles
Language :
English
Title :
Two years of continuous measurements of tidal and nontidal variations of gravity in Boulder, Colorado
Publication date :
1998
Journal title :
Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN :
0094-8276
eISSN :
0094-8276
Publisher :
American Geophysical Union
Volume :
25
Issue :
3
Pages :
393-396
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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