The theory of Smith (1977,1980) is generalized to include both forced and free rotations by introducing an arbitrarily rotating nutation frame.The Eulerien equations are transformed to include the following unknowns:t...The theory of Smith (1977,1980) is generalized to include both forced and free rotations by introducing an arbitrarily rotating nutation frame.The Eulerien equations are transformed to include the following unknowns:the angular velocity of the nutation frame with respect to the spatial frame,which represents the nutation,and the angles defining the orientation of the Earth with respect to the nutation frame,which represents the polar motion.Together with the definition of the nutation frame (as the definition of the nutation frame is arbitrary to some extent),one can solve simultaneously forced and free nutation and polar motion.As demonstrative examples,studies of nutation and polar motion are made by assuming the nutation axis to be the Earth’s figure axis,rotation axis and angular momentum axis respectively.And the case of the celestial ephemeris pole is also studied.展开更多
This research aims to study the influences of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations on polar motion.Power spectrum density analyses show that the efficiencies of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations differ not on...This research aims to study the influences of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations on polar motion.Power spectrum density analyses show that the efficiencies of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations differ not only at different frequencies but also in the retrograde and prograde components,but the sum of atmospheric and oceanic excitations shows the best agreement with the observed excitation.展开更多
基金ProjectsupportedbytheNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChi na (No .498740 0 3)
文摘The theory of Smith (1977,1980) is generalized to include both forced and free rotations by introducing an arbitrarily rotating nutation frame.The Eulerien equations are transformed to include the following unknowns:the angular velocity of the nutation frame with respect to the spatial frame,which represents the nutation,and the angles defining the orientation of the Earth with respect to the nutation frame,which represents the polar motion.Together with the definition of the nutation frame (as the definition of the nutation frame is arbitrary to some extent),one can solve simultaneously forced and free nutation and polar motion.As demonstrative examples,studies of nutation and polar motion are made by assuming the nutation axis to be the Earth’s figure axis,rotation axis and angular momentum axis respectively.And the case of the celestial ephemeris pole is also studied.
基金Supported by the Engagement Fund of Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Wuhan University (No. 22)the Ph.D. Candidates Self-research (including 1+4) Program of Wuhan University in 2008 (No.49)+1 种基金the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy,Ministry of Education,China (No. 08-02-02)the Special Scientific Researching Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying,Mapping and Remote Sensing (China) and the National Natural Science Foundation,China (No. 40974015)
文摘This research aims to study the influences of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations on polar motion.Power spectrum density analyses show that the efficiencies of the atmospheric and oceanic excitations differ not only at different frequencies but also in the retrograde and prograde components,but the sum of atmospheric and oceanic excitations shows the best agreement with the observed excitation.
