Improved determination of Earth’s mass references combining measurements from different satellite geodetic techniques. Applications in oceanography using satellite altimetry.

• Main Author: Couhert, Alexandre
• Other Authors: Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Pierre Exertier, Christian Bizouard
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Gravity field; Satellite altimetry; Earth rotation; Mass redistribution; Champ de gravité; Altimétrie spatiale; Rotation de la Terre; Redistribution de masse; [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-02502277; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02502277/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02502277/file/manuscript_ac.pdf

In the context of the overall climate change and the need to analyze the implications of the record ice-sheet melting for the sea level and global fluid mass redistribution budgets, our PhD work focuses on large-scale phenomena impacting the shape of the Earth, its gravity field, and the stability o...