Artz, Thomas: Determination of Sub-daily Earth Rotation Parameters from VLBI Observations. - Bonn, 2011. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/4757,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5N-27105,
author = {{Thomas Artz}},
title = {Determination of Sub-daily Earth Rotation Parameters from VLBI Observations},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2011,
month = nov,

note = {The work presented deals with the determination of sub-daily Earth Rotation Parameters (ERPs) from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. Monitoring and interpreting the Earth's rotation variations in general is an important task for Earth sciences, as they provide boundary which support other geophysical investigations. This holds especially for sub-daily variations of the Earth's rotation which are primarily excited by variations of the oceans. Furthermore, atmospheric impacts as well as effects of the shape of the Earth are present. VLBI observations are in particular feasible. With VLBI all five parameters of the Earth's orientation can be determined without hypothesis. Thus, VLBI derived results do not suffer from resonance effects from the modeling of artificial Earth satellites, which is the fact for ERPs derived, e.g., from observations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
Although the analysis of sub-daily variations of the Earth's rotation is by no means a new scientific area of research, there is a clear need to expand the methods used. This is also obvious as further studies by other authors were performed in parallel to the results presented in this thesis. Thus, the determination and analysis of sub-daily ERPs can be considered as a vital field of research. The determination of sub-daily ERPs from VLBI observations can be divided into two areas. On the one hand, time series with a high temporal resolution, e.g., one hour, can be generated. On the other hand, an empirical model for the tidal variations of the ERPs with periods of one day and below can be determined from the VLBI observations. Both areas of research are considered within this thesis.
Concerning the time series approach, special continuous VLBI campaigns are examined as they offer ideal conditions for this approach. For the analysis of these campaigns, an optimized solution scheme is implemented. This adapts the continuous character in an optimal way and avoids negative influences of the VLBI-analysis on the subsequent examination of the sub-daily ERPs. In this way, irregular variations are confirmed and further ones are detected. However, it is pointed out that these variations can be confirmed only with continuous campaigns over longer time spans. Furthermore, a temporal resolution below one hour of the sub-daily ERPs would be desirable to detect additional short periodic variations. This is not possible with the current status of VLBI observations, but, improvement is promised by future technical concepts of VLBI. The analysis methods that are applied within this thesis, will be directly applicable to future VLBI observations.
With regard to the determination of an empirical model for tidal ERP variations, a new methodology based on the transformation of normal equation systems is developed. It is shown that this approach can be successfully applied to VLBI observations. Moreover, this approach provides a straight forward method for the combination of different space-geodetic techniques, being the most rigorous one known today, when different software packages are used to pre-process the individual techniques. Within the thesis at hand, the approach of the transformation of normal equation systems is used to estimate an empirical model for tidal ERP variations from observations of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as well. On this basis, the work of this thesis cumulates in a rigorous combination of GPS and VLBI observations. The combined time series with an hourly resolution as well as the determined empirical model for tidal ERP variations exhibit that the strengths of both techniques are sustained.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/4757}
}

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