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Author : Kurt Lambeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521673303
An analysis of the irregular rotation of the Earth and the geophysical mechanisms responsible for it.
Author : Raymond Hide
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Earth (Planet)
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2000
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With the beginning of the 21st Century, the timing community finds itself again facing a decades-old problem of how to synchronize a uniform time scale with time derived from the Earth's rotation. Atomic time is the basis for most everyday timing applications, However, time astronomically determined from the Earth's rotation is essential for other applications including navigation. The history of relating atomic time to the Earth's rotation is presented, including background information related to the current synchronization method of leap seconds.
Author : Dennis D. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 38,39 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107197287
This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.
Author : Alice K. Babcock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1988-02-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027726582
Proceedings of the 128th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Coolfont, West Virginia, USA, October 20-24, 1986.
Author : F. Richard Stephenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1997-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521461944
This book is intended for geophysicists, astronomers (especially those with an interest in history), historians and orientalists. The culmination of many years of research, it discusses, in depth, ancient and medieval eclipse observations and their importance in studying Earth's past rotation. This was the first major book on this subject to appear in the last twenty years. The author has specialised in the interpretation of early astronomical records and their application to problems in modern astronomy for many years. The book contains an in-depth discussion of numerous eclipse records from Babylon, China, Europe and the Arab lands. Translations of almost every record studied are given. It is shown that although tides play a dominant long-term role in producing variations in Earth's rate of rotation - causing a gradual increase in the length of the day - there are significant, and variable non-tidal changes in opposition to the main trend.
Author : Walter H. Munk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521104067
This book gives an account of certain observed irregularities on the rotation of the Earth, both in its rate of rotation (giving a variable length of day) and in the position of its axis. These irregularities are caused by events on and within the Earth and provide a means of studying a number of geophysical problems. Seasonal shifts in air masses and variable winds are causes of short-period fluctuations in the rotation. Climatic changes and their attendant sea levels are in part responsible for long-term fluctuations. Modern observations of the Moon and descriptions of ancient elipses both establish a secular increase in the length of day. The interpretation involves atmospheric, oceanic and bodily tides. The book provides a unified treatment of the rotation of the Earth, making this method of studying geophysical phenomena more readily accessible to geophysicists and others.
Author : Peter Brosche
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662402033
P. Brosche The development of the ideas and observational techniques related to the subject of our meeting "Tidal friction and the Earth's rotation", Bielefeld, September 1977 is one of the most fascinating books - not merely chapters! - of the modern history of science. Its genealogical tree is as intricate as that of mankind itself: There are dead ends and superfluous re-discoveries. Due to these circumstances and to the pure extent of the topic, it is impossible to give more than a few highlights here. The first relevant observational fact was discovered by the famous English astronomer E. Halley in 1695 (Berry, 1961). He simply could not arrive at an agreement between ancient and recent eclipses using a constant mean angular motion of the Moon. Instead, he had to introƯ duce an empirical acceleration term in the mean motion. Known as the "secular acceleration", it has ever since been a most challenging subƯ ject of celestial mechanics and a main branch of the genealogical tree already mentioned. In 1754, completely independently and almost certainly in ignorance of those specialists' activities, the German philosopher Kant established the idea of tidal friction as a decelerating mechanism for the rotation of the Earth (Felber, 1974). Although he made some errors in his rough computations, the majority of the constitutive elements of his concept have survived to the present day (Brosche, 1977).
Author : S Flodmark
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 1991-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814611212
The rotation of the Earth and its relation to geomagnetism are topics that have been under debate for more than a century. In this volume both of these phenomena are discussed in the light of new approaches. Keith Runcorn presents a survey of the papers and concluding remarks. F Richard Stephenson gives a thorough review of the history of the Earth's rotation whilst Stig Flodmark finds an explanation for the Chandler wobbles and the drift of the polar axis. A New Approach to Polar Motion by Losito et al. gives another view of the same theory. The fascinating idea of a single-crystal inner core is discussed by Flodmark and Weber and magnetic rigidity in the Earth is a new concept dealt with by Mörner. The mechanisms behind magnetic reversals, ice ages and earthquakes are other subjects under debate. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage forthcoming debates on these subjects.
Author : Anny Cazenave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 940094750X
The idea for organl.zl.ng an Advanced Research Workshop entirely devoted to the Earth rotation was born in 1983 when Professor Raymond Hide suggested this topic to the special NATO panel of global transport mechanism in the Geosciences. Such a specialized meeting did not take place since the GEOP research conference on the rotation of the Earth and polar motion which was held at the Ohio State University (USA) in 1973. In the last ten years, highly precise measurements of the Earth's rotation parameters and new global geophysical data have become available allowing major advance to be made in the under standing of the various irregularities affecting the Earth's rotation. The aim of the workshop was to bring together scientists who have made important contributions in this field during the last decade both at the observational and geophysical interpretation levels. The confe rence was divided into four main topics. The first session was dedicated to the definition, implementation and maintenance of the terrestrial and celestial reference systems. A few critical points have been identified as requiring further improvements: (i) appro priate selection of terrestrial sites recognized for their long term stability, (ii) determination of the relationship between terrestrial and celestial references systems as well as between the various terrestrial ones, (iii) improvment of the theory of a rotating elastic earth (the recently adopted theory needs already some corrections').