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Is the Chandler Period Stable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Gao Buxi
Gao Buxi*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics Chinese Academia Sinica Wuhan, 430077, P. R. China

Abstract

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The problem on Chandler period is an unsolved one. Several authors suggested a hypothesis that the Chandler wobble is only one free period which slightly changes in time and is amplitude-dependent. In this paper we shall make the hypothesis more rigorous than that has been carried yet. A new deconvolution method for Fourier transform is suggested. Using this method the polar motion data are analysed. The analysis results are shown; the Chandler period is not stable and is indeed amplitude-dependent. The probable explanation for the amplitude-dependent of Chandler period is that, which might be caused by non-equilibrium response of the ocean.

Type
Impact on Geodynamics
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 156: Developments in Astrometry and their Impacts on Astrophysics , 1993 , pp. 303 - 308
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Copyright © Kluwer 

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