Polar motion : historical and scientific problems /
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| Meeting name: | IAU Colloquium (178th : 1999 : Cagliari, Italy) |
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| Imprint: | San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000. |
| Description: | xxii, 641 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series v. 208 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4369855 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Conference Participants
- Conference photograph
- Historical Sessions
- Polar Motion: A Historical Overview on the Occasion of the Centennial of the International Latitude Service
- Part 1.. History of Early Polar Motion Research
- On Leonhard Euler's Contribution to the Theory of Precession and Nutation
- Theories of Polar Motion from Tisserand to Poincare (1890-1910)
- Early Observational Evidence of Polar Motion
- Latitude Observations at Paris Observatory Prior to the ILS
- Romanian Contribution to the Study of Polar Motion
- The Observations of Latitude Changes Measured in Prague
- Kustner's Observations of 1884-85: the Turning Point in the Empirical Establishment of Polar Motion
- Seth Carlo Chandler Jr.: The Discovery of Variation of Latitude
- 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
- On the Contributions of the Geodetic Institute Potsdam to the ILS
- History of the International Polar Motion Service/International Latitude Service
- Kitab as One of the Five Stations of the ILS: History and Present
- Browsing through the Observing Books of Carloforte
- History of the Bureau International de l'Heure
- E. P. Fedorov as President of Commission 19 of IAU During the Period of the Reorganization of ILS
- Project MERIT and the Formation of the International Earth Rotation Service
- The First Decade of the IERS
- Time and Polar Motion in Early NASA Spacecraft Navigation
- Scientific Sessions
- Polar Motion--An Overview
- Part 3.. Observational Techniques for Polar Motion
- Survey of Observational Techniques and Hipparcos Reanalysis
- VLBI Observations of Earth Orientation
- Determination of EOP from VLBI in IAA
- SLR Contribution to Investigation of Polar Motion
- IGS Combined and Contributed Earth Rotation Parameter Solutions
- Astrolabe Solar Observations
- The TOCAMM Project
- Analysis of Long Time Series of Polar Motion
- Part 4.. Long-term Polar Motion
- William Markowitz
- Long-term Earth Orientation Monitoring Using Various Techniques
- Anomalous Roughness of the Pole Path at the Time of the 1994 Bolivia and Kurile Islands Earthquakes
- The Markowitz Wobble
- Coseismic Excitation of the Earth's Polar Motion
- Secular Variation of Carloforte Latitude
- A Mechanism of Variations of the Earth Rotation at Different Timescales
- Part 5.. Chandler and Annual Polar Motion: Observation and Excitation
- Chandler Motion Observations
- On the Chandler periodicity (Polar Motion, LOD and Climate)
- ILS Polar Motion Results at Interannual Time Scales
- Anaglif Representation of Polar Motion over the Last Century
- Excitation of Polar Motion
- Tectonic and Cryospheric Excitation of the Chandler Wobble and A Brief Review of the Secular Motion of Earth's Rotation Pole
- Atmospheric Excitation of Polar Motion
- Nature and Properties of the Chandler Motion and Mechanism of its Damping and Excitation
- Excitation of the Chandler Wobble
- Regional Signals in Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitation of Polar Motion
- Dissipation and Ellipticity of the Chandler Wobble
- Free Frequencies for a Three Layered Earth Model
- Study of the Regime of the Polar Motion by Means of Numerical Method
- The Oscillation of a System Earth - Moon
- Nonlinear Dynamics Method for Excitation and Attenuation of Chandler Wobble
- On Estimate of Real Accuracy of EOP Prediction
- Part 6.. Daily and Subdaily Polar Motion
- Polar Motion with Daily and Subdaily Time Resolution
- The Quality of Subdaily Polar Motion Estimates Based on GPS Observations
- Short-Period Oscillations of Earth Rotation
- On High Frequency Polar Motion and Length of Day Variations
- Atmospheric Angular Momentum Variations and Diurnal Polar Motion
- Tidal Variations of the Earth's Rotation
- Part 7.. Modern Definition of the Celestial Ephemeris Pole
- Overview and Proposition for a Modern Definition of the CEP
- The CEP and Geophysical Interpretation of Modern Earth Rotation Observations
- Numerical Convolution Method in Time Domain and Its Application to Nonrigid Earth Nutation Theory
- Determination of the Long Period Nutation Terms from Optical Astrometry and VLBI Data
- Comparison of the Short Period Rigid Earth Nutation Series
- Mathematical Theory of Motion of Revolving Axes on the Surface of Planets
- Advanced Observations of Lunar Physical Librations and Gravitational Fields in Japanese Lunar Missions in the Near Future
- Summary and Recommendations
- Index
