Change in the zonal harmonic coefficient C20, Earth’s polar flattening, and dynamical ellipticity from SLR data
We examine the change in the Earth’s second degree zonal harmonic coefficient derived from UTCSR SRL time series of given (a) for the period from 1976 to 2017 as monthly solutions of the zonal coefficient and (b) for the period from 1992 to 2017 as weekly solutions of the zonal coefficient obtained via the eigenvalue-eigenvector problem and related to the principal axes system. The mean difference between the coefficients or given in various systems consists of the value which is smaller than time variations in the coefficients or .