Polar motion interpretation using gravimetric observations

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Apr 2008

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"Proceedings of the "Journées Systèmes de Référence Spatio-temporels 2007". Observatoire de Paris, 17-19 September 2007. Editor:

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Polar motion is interpreted as the effect of i) the Earth’s inertia moment changes asso- ciated with the so-called mass term of the Earth’s angular momentum ii) the Earth’s relative angular momentum in the terrestrial frame. Thanks to the GRACE mission and in a lesser extent to LAGEOS missions, the mass term is determined since 2002, independently from any geophysical model. Besides the modeled excitations of the polar motion, i.e the atmospheric angular momentum (AAM), the Oceanic Angular Momentum (OAM), the Hydrological Angular Momentum (HAM), this gravimetric mass term is a new kind of information which can be matched to the observed excitation of the polar motion after removal of the effect of the relative angular momentum, mostly caused by the wind and the oceanic cur- rents. Such comparison, already performed by various authors, is updated for the last releases (RL04) of the gravity field changes i.e. those of the GFZ, CSR, JPL and explored for the mixed LAGEOS-GRACE solution of the GRGS. We confirm that a fair general agreement, especially for the y-component of the equatorial excitation. After removing the modeled oceanic and atmospheric excitations from the signals, we obtain the non-modeled excitation, mostly of hydrological nature; this allows us to compare them to the existing hydrological models, differences might comes from others Earth’s phenomena, for example, earthquakes.

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