| Description | Working file entitled 'SEASAT GRM,' concerning NASA's proposed Geopotential Research Mission (GRM), involving the use of two satellites in a circular polar orbit of 160km altitude, to record the gravity and magnetic fields of the Earth. The file comprises: correspondence between McKenzie, Bill Kaula, Carl Wunsch, Wally Broecker, Francis Bretherton and Chris Rapley discussing the opposition to [notably from McKenzie] and issues concerning the GRM project, October 1983-February 1984; manuscript notes, data set, plots and profile & contour diagrams derived from satellite technology, 1980-[1983], used in the compilation of McKenzie's report "Comments on the Geopotential Research Mission", October 1983 [report included]; offprints and copies of academic papers by others on the use of satellite gradiometry and altimetry to analyse oceans, 1980-1983; abstract of paper "The importance of GRM gravity observations in continental regions" by McKenzie for a talk given at the GRM Science Conference, 29-31 October [1984], also list of delegates; circular letters from the International Association of Geodesy Study Group (2.83) 'Data Analysis Methods for Satellite to Satellite Tracking and Satellite Gradiometry', October 1983-July 1985. |