Earth's long-period wobbles: A Lagrangean description of the Liouville equations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-62

  Rochester, M G ^a   Crossley, D J ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth rotation variations

Indexed keywords

CHANDLER WOBBLE; DEFORMATION; EARTH ROTATION; INNER CORE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149201108     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03991.x     Document Type: Article

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