Veronique Dehant, Piravonu M. Mathews (Sonny)

Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how changes in the Earth's orientation are observed and computed in terms of tidal forcing and models of the Earth's interior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 944g
• ISBN-13: 9781107465824
• ISBN-10: 1107465826
• Artikelnr.: 49133796

Autorenporträt

V. Dehant is Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, responsible for the operational direction 'Reference Systems and Planetology', and is a part-time professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Her research is focused on the interior, rotation, and habitability of the terrestrial objects of our Solar System, mostly in relation to the evolution of their interiors and atmospheres. Professor Dehant is also Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of several instruments in European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA missions, and has received several awards including the Descartes Prize of the European Union. She is involved in the ESA Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC) and is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (Science Class). She is the author of more than 400 publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of acronyms
1. Introduction, fundamental definitions and motivation
2. Concepts and elementary theory
3. Reference systems and frames
4. Observational techniques: ephemerides
5. Rigid Earth precession and nutation
6. Deformable Earth and Love numbers
7. Nutations of a non-rigid Earth
8. Anelasticity
9. Ocean and atmospheric corrections
10. Refinements of nonrigid nutation
11. Comparison observation-theory
12. Conventions
13. Mars nutations
Appendix A. Rotation representation
Appendix B. Clairaut theory
Appendix C. Definitions of equinoxes
Bibliography
Index.