Modeling the length of day and extrapolating the rotation of the Earth

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 283-303

  Huber, Peter J ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decadal fluctuations; Earth rotation; Extrapolation of clock time correction; Length of day; Madden Julian oscillation; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BROWNIAN MOTION; DAY LENGTH; DECADAL VARIATION; EARTH ROTATION; GEODESY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 33748331393     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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