Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction – Fundamental definitions – Motivation
- 2 Concepts and elementary theory
- 3 Reference systems and frames
- 4 Observational techniques – ephemerides
- 5 Rigid Earth precession and nutation
- 6 Deformable Earth – Love numbers
- 7 Nutations of a non-rigid Earth
- 8 Anelasticity
- 9 Ocean and atmospheric corrections
- 10 Refinements of non-rigid nutation
- 11 Comparison observation-theory
- 12 Conventions
- 13 Mars nutations
- Appendix A Rotation representation
- Appendix B Clairaut theory
- Appendix C Definitions of equinoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix C - Definitions of equinoxes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction – Fundamental definitions – Motivation
- 2 Concepts and elementary theory
- 3 Reference systems and frames
- 4 Observational techniques – ephemerides
- 5 Rigid Earth precession and nutation
- 6 Deformable Earth – Love numbers
- 7 Nutations of a non-rigid Earth
- 8 Anelasticity
- 9 Ocean and atmospheric corrections
- 10 Refinements of non-rigid nutation
- 11 Comparison observation-theory
- 12 Conventions
- 13 Mars nutations
- Appendix A Rotation representation
- Appendix B Clairaut theory
- Appendix C Definitions of equinoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth , pp. 479 - 481Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015