<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We analyse sub-diurnal Earth rotation variations obtained from the continuous VLBI experiments CONT02, CONT05, and CONT08. We find that the Earth rotation parameters estimated from these campaigns contain signals with periods ±12 hours, +24 hours, and in CONT02 also -8 hours, which cannot be explained by the current IERS sub-diurnal pole model. We investigate if these signals could be caused by atmospheric excitations, but find that these excitations are too small.</p></abstract>

We analyse sub-diurnal Earth rotation variations obtained from the continuous VLBI experiments CONT02, CONT05, and CONT08. We find that the Earth rotation parameters estimated from these campaigns contain signals with periods ±12 hours, +24 hours, and in CONT02 also -8 hours, which cannot be explained by the current IERS sub-diurnal pole model. We investigate if these signals could be caused by atmospheric excitations, but find that these excitations are too small.

Sub-Diurnal Earth Rotation Variations Observed by VLBI

Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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We analyse sub-diurnal Earth rotation variations obtained from the continuous VLBI experiments CONT02, CONT05, and CONT08. We find that the Earth rotation...

Sub-Diurnal Earth Rotation Variations Observed by VLBI

Published Online: Nov 01, 2010

Page range: 49 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10018-010-0005-8

Keywords
Earth Rotation, VLBI

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Sub-Diurnal Earth Rotation Variations Observed by VLBI

Published Online: Nov 01, 2010

Page range: 49 - 55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10018-010-0005-8

KeywordsEarth Rotation, VLBI

This content is open access.

Keywords
Earth Rotation, VLBI