The ocean tide and waves beneath the Ross ice shelf, Antarctica

Widely spaced tidal gravity records have been used to determine the spatial and temporal variation of the ocean tide beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. Cotidal-coamplitude maps have been drawn for the six greatest harmonic constituents of the tide. These are K₁, P₁, O₁, M₂, S₂, and N₂. The tide is principa...

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Main Author: Williams, Richard T.
Other Authors: Geophysics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39003
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282010-020429/