Quantifying the correlation between the MEI and LOD variations by decomposing LOD with Singular Spectrum Analysis
Paper i proceeding, 2014

Variations in the temporal length-of-day (LOD) contain information on phenomena related to the continuous evolution of Earth processes: tidal energy dissipation and core-mantle coupling (decadal, secular), meteorological and solar-lunar tide effects (annual, semi-annual). In this work, we studied an LOD time series obtained from VLBI measurements and extracted its principal components using the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA). After removing the long-term trend which explains 73. 8% of the signal, three remaining components explain a further 22. 0% of the signal: an annual and a semi-annual signals as well as a second trend. We compared the Multivariate ENSO index (MEI) with the variations in the amplitudes of the annual and semi-annual components and with the second trend. The correlations are significant: 0. 58 for the annual component, − 0. 48 for the semi-annual component and 0. 46 for the second trend.

Length-Of-Day (LOD) • VLBI • Singular Spectrum Analysis • ENSO • Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)

Författare

Karine le Bail

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

John Gipson

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Daniel S. MacMillan

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, June 28–July 2, 2011, Series: International Association of Geodesy Symposia

Vol. 139 473-477
978-3-642-37221-6 (ISBN)

IAG General Assembly
Melbourne, Australia,

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-37222-3_63

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