Geodesy and Physics of the Earth: Geodetic Contributions to Geodynamics: 7th International Symposium "Geodesy and Physics of the Earth," Potsdam, Octo (Springer Series in Materials Science)

The investigation of the kinematics and dynamics of the Earth has achieved remarkable progresses in the last decades in understanding and explaining a large variety of geo- dynamical, geophysical and geological phenomena. The impact of increasingly precise geodetic space-time measurements and analyses have much contributed to these results. Papers presented atthe 7th International Symposium on Geodesy and Physics of the Earth focus onfour topics: - Present Day Tectonic Motions - Gravity Field and its Variation - Earth Rotation Characteristics - International Programs for Geodesy and Geodynamics Researchers and advanced students may use this volume as a comprehensive reference of concepts, techniques and results. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI IAG President’s Address....Pages 1-2 The Role of the International Association of Geodesy in Establishing User Services....Pages 3-4 L.P. Pellinen — Scientific Memories....Pages 5-8 The 1992 Activities of the International GPS Geodynamics Service (IGS)....Pages 9-13 GPS Processing at GFZ for the IGS 1992 Campaign....Pages 14-19 Automated Data Flow and Processing at the “Center for Orbit Determination in Europe” (CODE) during the 1992 IGS Campaign....Pages 20-23 Results of the “Center for Orbit Determination in Europe” (CODE) during the IGS 1992 Campaign....Pages 24-27 GPS Orbit Computations in Australia within the International GPS Geodynamics Service: Should We? Could We?....Pages 28-32 Dynamics of the Solid Earth (DOSE): The Italian-German-Greek-Swiss Contribution to NASA’s DOSE Project in the Calabrian/Hellenic Arcs....Pages 33-36 Structure and Activities of the Wegener in the Nineties....Pages 37-41 Pamir — Tienshan GPS Project: Network, Observation Campaign 92 and Analysis Strategy....Pages 42-45 High Precision Network for Geodynamic Studies in the Azores Gibraltar Area....Pages 46-49 Geodynamical Investigations Program in Baksan Canyon Area....Pages 50-52 TIGO — A New Transportable Integrated Geodetic Observatory....Pages 53-55 First Results with Two-Colour Satellite Laser Ranging at the Fundamentalstation Wettzell....Pages 56-60 The International Absolute Gravity Basestation Network (IAGBN): Status 1992....Pages 61-62 Gravity Field Improvement Prospects from the Step Mission....Pages 63-66 On the Principles and Prospects of Gravity Field Determination by Satellite Methods....Pages 67-70 Global Gravitational Change from Space in 2001....Pages 71-74 Improvement of GRIM4 Earth Gravity Models Using Geosat Altimeter and SPOT-2 and ERS-1 Tracking Data....Pages 75-78 A Test of GEM T2 from Geosat Crossovers Using Latitude Lumped Coefficients....Pages 79-82 OGE12, A New 360 Gravity Field Model....Pages 83-87 D-PAF Quick-Look Sea Surface Height Monitoring with ERS-1 Fast Delivery Altimeter Data....Pages 87-90 Preliminary Results for the Simultaneous Estimation of Geoid Undulations and Sea Surface Topography by Geosat Altimeter Data....Pages 91-94 On Cross-Over Differences of the Radial Orbital Perturbations as Functions of Force Model Parameters....Pages 95-99 Sea Surface Heights in the Lampedusa Test Field for Calibration of the Topex-Poseidon Altimeter....Pages 100-104 Determination of the Gravitational Coefficient of the Earth from Lageos....Pages 105-108 Investigation of Higher Degree Terms of the Solid Tide Potential as a Function of the Satellite Altitude of 1000–6000 km....Pages 109-113 Mean Orbital Motion of Lageos Satellite Derived from Laser Ranging Observations....Pages 114-117 Determination of Time Variations of the Geopotential from Orbit Analysis of Geodynamical Satellites....Pages 118-123 Modeling the Upper Atmospheric Density with the Help of Satellite Data....Pages 124-128 In-Orbit Testing of the “MACEK” Microaccelerometer....Pages 129-132 Preliminary Results of a New Bouguer Map of Austria....Pages 133-136 Gravity Field Determination for the Territory of Croatia....Pages 137-140 Improved Geoid Solution for Slovenia and a Part of Croatia....Pages 141-144 Comparison of Geoids from Several Geopotential Coefficients in Spain....Pages 145-148 Gravimetric Data Validation in the Mediterranean Sea....Pages 149-152 Simulation Studies for Improving the Geoid in Egypt....Pages 153-158 Comparing Various Solutions for the Mohorovičić Discontinuity Shape in the Dinaric-Pannonian Region....Pages 159-162 Kindredness of Three Mountain Belts at the Border of the Pannonian Basin — Deduced from the Behavior of the Mohorovičić Discontinuity....Pages 163-166 Flightmechanical Aspects of Airborne Gravimetry....Pages 167-170 The Greenland Airborne Gravity Project — Comparison of Airborne and Terrestrial Gravity Data....Pages 171-175 Results and Comparisons of Repeated Precise Gravity Measurements on the Gravimetric West-East-Line....Pages 176-180 Evaluation of Microgravimetry for Southern Central Andes Recent Crustal Movement Determination....Pages 181-185 Joint Gravity Tide Recordings at Potsdam....Pages 186-189 Air Pressure and Temperature Influence on the Extensometric Measurements at the Vyhne Tidal Station....Pages 190-193 Planetary Waves in the Spectra of Air Pressure and Gravity Variations....Pages 194-199 Systematic Errors Affecting the Accuracy of High Precision Gravity Measurements....Pages 200-204 Installation of a Superconducting Gravimeter (SCG) at Gravimetric Observatory Potsdam....Pages 205-208 Detection of Secular Gravity Variations; Observations with Superconducting Gravimeters Improve the Accuracy of Absolute Gravity Measurements....Pages 209-212 Secular Gravity Variations....Pages 213-216 Repeated Measurements of Vertical Gravity Gradient....Pages 217-221 Possibility of Studying Variation of Horizontal Components of Gravitational Field with Classical Astrometric Instruments....Pages 222-225 Gauge Theory, Field Equations of Gravitation, the Definition and Computation of the Spacetime Deforming Geoid....Pages 226-232 Discrete Spherical Harmonic Analysis: Neumann’s Approach....Pages 233-236 The Inversion of Potential Field Anomalies by the Assembling Method: The Third Dimension....Pages 237-241 Maximal Correlation Adjustment in Physical Geodesy....Pages 242-245 A Revision of Helmert’s Second Method of Condensation in Geoid and Quasigeoid Determination....Pages 246-251 The Method of Gravity Inversion: Application to Density Modelling of the Lithosphere Along the Angola-Brazil Geotraverse....Pages 252-255 Nonlinear Gravity Field Inversion Using Point Masses — Diagnosing Nonlinearity....Pages 256-259 Integrated Processing of Satellite Orbit and Satellite Gradiometry Data....Pages 260-265 Downward Continuation Versus Free-Air Reduction in Airborne Gravimetry....Pages 266-270 Simultaneous Efficient Estimation of Gravimetric Network Parameters and Variation Coefficients of Devices....Pages 271-274 A Group of Gravimeters, Stochastical Problems and Their Solution....Pages 275-278 Vening Meinesz Moho Depths and Their Approximations....Pages 279-282 On the Terrain Correction in the Atmospheric Gravity and Geoid Corrections....Pages 283-286 Some Elementary Relations between Mass Distributions Inside the Earth and the Geoid and Gravity Field....Pages 287-290 Excitement of the Toroidal Field in Mantle Convection....Pages 291-298 Undulations of the Core-Mantle Boundary: Estimations and Observations....Pages 299-302 Analysis of Crustal Deformations Based on SLR Data....Pages 303-307 Tectonic Motion from LAGEOS SLR Data Using a Network Adjustment Technique....Pages 308-311 Geodynamical Parameters and Reference Frame Determination from 1983–1991 Lageos SLR Data Analysis....Pages 312-314 Results of ETALON Data Analysis....Pages 315-318 Precise Determination of Baseline Changes by Simultaneous Range Differences (SRD)....Pages 319-322 First Results of European Crustal Motion Measurements with VLBI....Pages 323-326 Horizontal Velocity of Shanghai VLBI Station Relative to Eurasian Plate from VLBI....Pages 327-330 Comparison and Combination of Different GPS-Reiceiver Types at a Distance of 50 km....Pages 331-334 On the Connection of Baltic Tide Gauges to the Geocentric Reference Frame....Pages 335-338 Global and Regional Network Analysis from GPS Phase Observations....Pages 339-343 Relativistic Modelling of Precise Satellite Observations in a Geocentric Earthbounded Coordinate System....Pages 344-347 The Use of Albedo for the Relation of Influences on the Satellite Orbits....Pages 348-350 On the Redetermination for the Height of the World Highest Peak....Pages 351-356 Geodynamic Studies in the Polish Part of the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone....Pages 357-360 The Connection of Recent Vertical Movements with Some Geological Characteristics Using Partial and Multiple Correlation Coefficients....Pages 361-364 Variation of Point Positions and Gravity Field in the Area of Intensive Mining....Pages 365-368 Geodetic Measurements and Their Impact on the Modeling of Recent Crustal Deformations in the Alpine Region....Pages 369-372 A Deformation Model of the Mediterranean from Space Geodetic Observations and Geophysical Predictions....Pages 373-378 Structures of Statistical Models for Studying Recent Crustal Movements....Pages 379-382 The Recent Crustal Stress Field in Central Europe Sensu Latu....Pages 383-387 Seismic-Gravity Modelling of the Continental Crust and Upper Mantle....Pages 388-391 The Origin of Hotspots and The D” Layer....Pages 392-395 Accuracy of High-Frequency Observations of Earth Orientation....Pages 396-399 Diurnal and Semidiurnal Variations in Earth Orientation Determined from Lageos Laser Ranging....Pages 400-403 High Resolution of Earth Rotation Parameters by Means of Satellite Data....Pages 404-408 Nearly Diurnal Structure of Polar Motion Analysing Lageos SLR Data....Pages 409-412 Epoch ’92: Results from the Analysis of GPS and SLR Data....Pages 413-416 Continuity of UT1 Series from “Intensive” VLBI on Westford-Wettzell Baseline....Pages 417-420 The Determination of the Tidal Variations of the Plumb Line and the Nearly Diurnal Free Wobble from the PZT Observations....Pages 421-424 The Global Analysis of Time Determinations Made in Bucharest....Pages 425-426 One Century Latitude Determinations at Potsdam....Pages 427-430 Hipparcos Extragalactic Link and Earth Rotation Parameters....Pages 431-434 Periodic Series of ΔUT1....Pages 435-438 Variations of 80–120 Day Oscillations of Polar Motion and Atmospheric Angular Momentum....Pages 439-442 The Autocovariance Prediction of the Earth Rotation Parameters....Pages 443-446 The Influence of Solar Wind on Short Period of Earth’s Rotation....Pages 447-450 High Frequency Oscillations of the Celestial Ephemeris Pole by Variations of the Effective Angular Momentum Function....Pages 451-454 Global Sea Level Changes Inferred from Polar Motion....Pages 455-458 Geomagnetic Implications of the Inner Core Precession....Pages 459-462 Back Matter....Pages 463-465