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  <dc:creator>Michael J. Willis</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2007</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Several years of continuous data have been collected at remote bedrock Global Positioning System (GPS) 
sites in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Annual to sub-annual variations are observed in the position time-series. An 
atmospheric pressure loading (APL) effect is calculated from pressure field anomalies supplied by the European Centre 
for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model loading an elastic Earth model. The predicted APL signal has 
a moderate correlation with the vertical position time-series at McMurdo, Ross Island (International Global Navigation 
Satellite System Service (IGS) station MCM4), produced using a global solution. In contrast, a local solution in which 
MCM4 is the fiducial site generates a vertical time series for a remote site in Victoria Land (Cape Roberts, ROB4) 
which exhibits a low, inverse correlation with the predicted atmospheric pressure loading signal. If, in the future, 
known and well modeled geophysical loads can be separated from the time-series, then local hydrological loading, of 
interest for glaciological and climate applications, can potentially be extracted from the GPS time-series.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/ofr20071047SRP065</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Analysis of continuous GPS measurements from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>