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International Journal of Geophysics
Volume 2013, Article ID 398956, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/398956
Research Article

Metrological Analysis of Geopotential Gravity Field for Harbor Waterside Management and Water Quality Control

Osvaldo Faggioni,1,2,3 Maurizio Soldani,1 and Davide Andrea Leoncini1,2

1OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), ST-COPS, Via Carducci 120, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
2Università degli Studi di Genova, DITEN, Via all'Opera Pia 11A, 16145 Genova, Italy
3Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sez. Roma 2, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Roma, Italy

Received 24 January 2013; Accepted 22 April 2013

Academic Editor: Michela Giustiniani

Copyright © 2013 Osvaldo Faggioni et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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