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IERS 1 General Definitions and Numerical Standards
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MEAN CRUST
INSTANTANEOUS CRUST
(observed)
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1.2 Numerical Standards IERS
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ZERO-TIDE GEOPOTENTIAL
INSTANTANEOUS GEOPOTENTIAL
(observed)
Fig. 1.2 Treatment of observations for tidal effects in the geopotential (see Chapter 6).
tT DB = tT CB /(1 − LB ), `T DB = `T CB /(1 − LB ),
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xT DB = xT CB × (1 − LB ).
Similarly, the numerical value xT CG when using “TCG” (SI) units differs
from the numerical value xT T when using “TT” units by
xT T = xT CG × (1 − LG )
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References IERS
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References
Astronomical Almanac for the Year 1984, U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington, DC.
Le Système International d’Unités (SI), 1998, Bureau International des
Poids et Mesures, Sèvres, France.
Seidelmann, P. K. and Fukushima, T., 1992, “Why New Time Scales?”
Astron. Astrophys., 265, pp. 833–838.
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