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Time-dependent components of the Earth’s tensor of inertia according to grace satellite

ISTCGCAP.
2008;
Volume 70, Number 70
: pp. 3-8
Authors:
  1. Alexander N. Marchenko
  2. N.P. Yarema
1
Department of Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy, Lviv Polytechnic National University
2
Lviv Polytechnic National University

The determination of the time-dependent constituents of the inertia tensor was considered. Special attention was given to the computation of temporally varying components of the Earth’s inertia tensor, which are based on the time series of 2nd-degree coefficients through GRACE observations.

 

Earth’s fundamental parameters
mean gravity potential
secular variations
geopotential model
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