Physics
Scientific paper
May 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993geoji.113..273t&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International (ISSN 0956-540X), vol. 113, no. 2, p. 273-283.
Physics
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Earth Gravitation, Earth Rotation, Gravitational Fields, Land Ice, Secular Variations, Greenland, Nutation, Polar Regions, Zonal Harmonics
Scientific paper
The contributions of the Antarctic and the Greenland ice sheets to the earth's gravity, displacement, and rotation are estimated using gridded values of the net surface accumulation rates in the ice sheets of these two regions. It is found that the contributions to the low-order zonal harmonic coefficients of the earth's gravitational potential from Antarctica are between 2 and 10 times larger than the uncertainties of the zonal harmonics derived from satellite solutions; for Greenland, the coefficients are within an order of magnitude of the uncertainties of the satellite solutions. Polar contributions to the displacement of the center of mass of the solid earth, as seen in the frame of reference of satellites tracked from the earth surface, range from less than 1 mm to 1.5 cm over a 60-yr period.
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