Numerical investigation of the Earth's rotation during a complete precession cycle

Details Numerical investigation of the Earth's rotation during a complete precession cycle Numerical investigation of the Earth's rotation during a complete precession cycle

Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992orci.nasa...41r&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Orbital, Rotational and Climatic Interactions p 41-44 (SEE N93-18962 06-46)

Physics

Earth Rotation, Numerical Integration, Orbital Elements, Precession, Rigid Structures, Chebyshev Approximation, Earth Tides, Earth-Moon System, Geopotential, Paleoclimatology

Scientific paper

A theory for the long-term rotational motion of the quasi-rigid Earth was constructed by numerical integration. The theory spans 72,000 years centered about 1968 A.D., and provides accurate rotational and positional data for the Earth in the recent past and the near future. The physical model is termed dynamically consistent because developments for the active forces and torques are truncated based solely on their magnitudes regardless of their origin. The model includes all appropriate forces and torques due to the geopotential and tidal effects as well as lunisolar and planetary contributions. The elastic and inelastic deformations due to tidal action were too small to affect the mass properties of the Earth at the truncation level of the model. However, long-term dissipative effects of the tidal forces and torques were not negligible. These considerations gave the model its quasi-rigid characterization. The numerical output provided both rotational and orbital-element data. The data were fitted throughout the 72,000-year range using Chebyshev polynomial series.

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