Polar motion : historical and scientific problems : proceedings of IAU Colloquium 178 held in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, 27-30 September 1999 / edited by Steven Dick, Dennis McCarthy, and Brian Luzum.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dick, Steven J.

McCarthy, Dennis D.

Luzum, Brian.

Conference Name:

IAU Colloquium (178th : 1999 : Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy)

Series:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 208.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 208

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Latitude Service--History--Congresses.

International Latitude Service.

Bureau international de l'heure--History--Congresses.

Bureau international de l'heure.

International Earth Rotation Service--History--Congresses.

International Earth Rotation Service.

Latitude variation.

Coordinates, Polar.

Polar wandering.

History.

Earth (Planet)--Rotation--Congresses.

Earth (Planet).

Polar wandering--Congresses.

Coordinates, Polar--Congresses.

Latitude variation--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2000]

Contents:

Polar Motion: A Historical Overview on the Occasion of the Centennial of the International Latitude Service / S. Dick 3

Part 1. History of Early Polar Motion Research

On Leonhard Euler's Contribution to the Theory of Precession and Nutation / V. Abalakin 27

Theories of Polar Motion from Tisserand to Poincare (1890-1910) / P. Melchior 41

Early Observational Evidence of Polar Motion / A. Verdun, G. Beutler 67

Latitude Observations at Paris Observatory Prior to the ILS / S. Debarbat 83

Romanian Contribution to the Study of Polar Motion / M. Stavinschi 89

The Observations of Latitude Changes Measured in Prague / Z. Sima 95

Kustner's Observations of 1884-85: the Turning Point in the Empirical Establishment of Polar Motion / P. Brosche 101

Seth Carlo Chandler Jr.: The Discovery of Variation of Latitude / M. Carter, W. Carter 109

Part 2. History of the International Latitude Service, Bureau International de l'Heure, International Earth Rotation Service and Polar Motion Applications

The Period of Organization of the International Latitude Service: 1889-1899 / E. Proverbio 123

On the Contributions of the Geodetic Institute Potsdam to the ILS / J. Hopfner 139

History of the International Polar Motion Service/International Latitude Service / K. Yokoyama, S. Manabe, S. Sakai 147

Kitab as One of the Five Stations of the ILS: History and Present / Sh. Ehgamberdiev, S. Eshonkulov, E. Litvinenko 163

Browsing through the Observing Books of Carloforte / S. Uras, A. Poma, P. Calledda 169

History of the Bureau International de l'Heure / B. Guinot 175

E. P. Fedorov as President of Commission 19 of IAU During the Period of the Reorganization of ILS / A. Korsun 185

Project MERIT and the Formation of the International Earth Rotation Service / G. Wilkins 187

The First Decade of the IERS / I. Mueller 201

Time and Polar Motion in Early NASA Spacecraft Navigation / P. Muller 215

Polar Motion

An Overview / D. McCarthy 223

Part 3. Observational Techniques for Polar Motion

Survey of Observational Techniques and Hipparcos Reanalysis / J. Vondrak, C. Ron 239

VLBI Observations of Earth Orientation / C. Ma, D. MacMillan 251

Determination of EOP from VLBI in IAA / E. Skurihkina 261

SLR Contribution to Investigation of Polar Motion / Z. Malkin 267

IGS Combined and Contributed Earth Rotation Parameter Solutions / J. Kouba, G. Beutler, M. Rothacher 277

Astrolabe Solar Observations / A. Andrei, F. Laclare, J. Penna, E. Jilinski, S. Puliaev, C. Delmas 303

The TOCAMM Project / M. Del Bo, M. Lattanzi, G. Massone, F. Porcu, F. Salvati, G. Deiana, A. Poma, S. Uras 317

Analysis of Long Time Series of Polar Motion / H. Schuh, B. Richter, S. Nagel 321

Part 4. Long-term Polar Motion

William Markowitz 335

Long-term Earth Orientation Monitoring Using Various Techniques / D. Gambis 337

Anomalous Roughness of the Pole Path at the Time of the 1994 Bolivia and Kurile Islands Earthquakes / G. Spada, L. Alfonsi, G. Soldati 345

The Markowitz Wobble / A. Poma 351

Coseismic Excitation of the Earth's Polar Motion / B. Chao, R. Gross 355

Secular Variation of Carloforte Latitude / A. Poma, S. Uras 369

A Mechanism of Variations of the Earth Rotation at Different Timescales / Yu. Barkin 373

Part 5. Chandler and Annual Polar Motion: Observation and Excitation

Chandler Motion Observations / Ya. Yatskiv 383

On the Chandler periodicity (Polar Motion, LOD and Climate) / F. Buffa, A. Poma 397

ILS Polar Motion Results at Interannual Time Scales / Z. Li, P. Paquet 403

Anaglif Representation of Polar Motion over the Last Century / S. Nagy 409

Excitation of Polar Motion / C. Wilson 411

Tectonic and Cryospheric Excitation of the Chandler Wobble and A Brief Review of the Secular Motion of Earth's Rotation Pole / S. Dickman 421

Atmospheric Excitation of Polar Motion / D. Salstein 437

Nature and Properties of the Chandler Motion and Mechanism of its Damping and Excitation / J. Ferrandiz, Yu. Barkin 447

Excitation of the Chandler Wobble / N. Sidorenkov 455

Regional Signals in Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitation of Polar Motion / J. Nastula, R. Ponte, D. Salstein 463

Dissipation and Ellipticity of the Chandler Wobble / Y. Zhu, B. Gao 473

Free Frequencies for a Three Layered Earth Model / A. Escapa, J. Getino, J. Ferrandiz 481

Study of the Regime of the Polar Motion by Means of Numerical Method / L. Rykhlova, G. Kurbasova 487

The Oscillation of a System Earth - Moon / G. Kurbasova, L. Rykhlova 493

Nonlinear Dynamics Method for Excitation and Attenuation of Chandler Wobble / W. Wang 495

On Estimate of Real Accuracy of EOP Prediction / Z. Malkin 505

Part 6. Daily and Subdaily Polar Motion

Polar Motion with Daily and Subdaily Time Resolution / G. Beutler, M. Rothacher, J. Kouba, R. Weber 513

The Quality of Subdaily Polar Motion Estimates Based on GPS Observations / R. Weber, M. Rothacher 527

Short-Period Oscillations of Earth Rotation / B. Kolaczek, W. Kosek, H. Schuh 533

On High Frequency Polar Motion and Length of Day Variations / K. Arfa-Kaboodvand, E. Groten 545

Atmospheric Angular Momentum Variations and Diurnal Polar Motion / V. Zharov, S. Pasynok 555

Tidal Variations of the Earth's Rotation / J. Ferrandiz, Yu. Barkin, J. Getino 565

Part 7. Modern Definition of the Celestial Ephemeris Pole

Overview and Proposition for a Modern Definition of the CEP / N. Capitaine 573

The CEP and Geophysical Interpretation of Modern Earth Rotation Observations / A. Brzezinski 585

Numerical Convolution Method in Time Domain and Its Application to Nonrigid Earth Nutation Theory / T. Fukushima, T. Shirai 595

Determination of the Long Period Nutation Terms from Optical Astrometry and VLBI Data / P. Yaya, C. Bizouard, C. Ron 607

Comparison of the Short Period Rigid Earth Nutation Series / Ch. Bizouard, M. Folgueira, J. Souchay 613

Mathematical Theory of Motion of Revolving Axes on the Surface of Planets / T. Kozhanov, N. Nizyarov 619

Advanced Observations of Lunar Physical Librations and Gravitational Fields in Japanese Lunar Missions in the Near Future / H. Hanada, K. Heki, N. Kawano, M. Ooe, T. Tsubokawa, S. Tsuruta, T. Ishikawa, H. Araki, K. Matsumoto, T. Takanezawa, Y. Kono, H. Karoji, T. Iwata, Y. Kaneko, T. Yokoyama 627.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1583810390

OCLC:

45264005