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Monitoring Global Geophysical Fluids by Space GeodesySince its establishment on 1/1/1998 by the International Earth Rotation Service, the Coordinating Center for Monitoring Global Geophysical Fluids (MGGF) and its seven Special Bureaus have engaged in an effort to support and facilitate the understanding of the geophysical fluids in global geodynamics research. Mass transports in the atmosphere-hydrosphere-solid Earth-core system (the "global geophysical fluids") will cause the following geodynamic effects on a broad time scale: (1) variations in the solid Earth's rotation (in length-of-day and polar motion/nutation) via the conservation of angular momentum and effected by torques at the fluid-solid Earth interface; (2) changes in the global gravitational field according to Newton's gravitational law; and (3) motion in the center of mass of the solid Earth relative to that of the whole Earth ("geocenter") via the conservation of linear momentum. These minute signals have become observable by space geodetic techniques, primarily VLBI, SLR, GPS, and DORIS, with ever increasing precision/accuracy and temporal/spatial resolution. Each of the seven Special Bureaus within MGGF is responsible for calculations related to a specific Earth component or aspect -- Atmosphere, Ocean, Hydrology, Ocean Tides, Mantle, Core, and Gravity/Geocenter. Angular momenta and torques, gravitational coefficients, and geocenter shift will be computed for geophysical fluids based on global observational data, and from state-of-the-art models, some of which assimilate such data. The computed quantities, algorithm and data formats are standardized. The results are archived and made available to the scientific research community. This paper reports the status of the MGGF activities and current results.
Document ID
19990115475
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Chao, Benjamin F.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Dehant, V.
Gross, R. S.
Ray, R. D.
Salstein, D. A.
Watkins, M.
Date Acquired
August 19, 2013
Publication Date
July 19, 1999
Subject Category
Geophysics
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly
Location: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Start Date: July 19, 1999
End Date: July 30, 1999
Sponsors: International Council of Scientific Unions
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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