Non-linearity of geocentre motion and its impact on the origin of the terrestrial reference frame

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Dong, Danan, Qu, Weijing, Fang, Peng, Peng, Dongju
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Gravity; geodesy and tides; Kendall; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/198/2/1071; https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu187

The terrestrial reference frame is a cornerstone for modern geodesy and its applications for a wide range of Earth sciences. The underlying assumption for establishing a terrestrial reference frame is that the motion of the solid Earth's figure centre relative to the mass centre of the Earth sy...