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IERS Message No. 211                                     August 07, 2012
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Session on Earth Rotation at AGU Fall Meeting 2012


Dear Colleagues -

As part of the 2012 Fall Meeting of the AGU that will be held in San
Francisco, California during 03-07 December 2012 I am happy to announce
there will be a session on "Earth Rotation: Past, Present, and Future".
The description of the session is given below.

On behalf of the conveners I would like to draw your attention to this
session and encourage you to participate in it. We are developing a rich
session that will cover all aspects of the Earth's rotation including
observing systems, theoretical developments, and advances in our
understanding of the causes of its variations. We hope that you will be
able to join us in San Francisco for this exciting session. More
information about the 2012 Fall Meeting of the AGU can be obtained from
its web site at <http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/>.

Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 08 August
2012.

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

Best regards,
Richard


G006: Earth Rotation: Past, Present, and Future

Current generation measurement systems are providing Earth rotation
measurements of unprecedented accuracy, and next generation systems
currently being developed and implemented promise to deliver
measurements of even higher accuracy. The theory of the Earth's rotation
is being extended in order to interpret these highly accurate
measurements, more accurate models of the mass transport within the
global geophysical fluids of the Earth are being developed, and
complementary measurements from other observing systems such as GRACE
have become available. This session will be a forum for discussing these
and other improvements in our ability to observe and understand Earth
rotation variations.

Conveners:

Richard Gross
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
richard.gross (at) jpl.nasa.gov

Aleksander Brzezinski
Space Research Centre
Polish Academy of Sciences
alek (at) cbk.waw.pl

Chengli Huang
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
clhuang (at) shao.ac.cn


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