Solid Earth: The priorities
Abstract
The European Space Agency's strategy concerning the solid Earth program is reviewed. Improvement of current knowledge of the global geopotential fields, both gravity and magnetic, was stressed as the highest priority. It was agreed that the objectives and goals of the planned Aristoteles mission correspond to this priority, and the need to realize this part of the program was stated. The interdisciplinary links of the program were identified, and it was decided that this program could make substantial contributions to research of oceans, climate and global change, atmosphere, ice and land surfaces.
- Publication:
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In ESA
- Pub Date:
- October 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991eouc.rept...34P
- Keywords:
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- Earth (Planet);
- Earth Gravitation;
- European Space Agency;
- Geopotential;
- Gravitational Fields;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Programs;
- Climate Change;
- Earth Atmosphere;
- Oceanography;
- Strategy;
- Geophysics