Suggested Reading
General Audience
Leap second information
Nelson, R.A., D.D. McCarthy, S. Malys, J. Levine, B. Guinot, H.F. Fligel, R.L. Beard and T.R. Bartholomew, The leap second: its history and possible future, Metrologia, 2001, 38, 509-529.
Earth's rotation and time
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McCarthy, D.D., Astronomical Time, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 79, No. 7, 1991.
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Rochester, M.G. The Earth's Rotation, 1973, EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, Vol. 54, 769-780.
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Smylie, D.E. and L. Mansinba, The Rotation of the Earth, Scientific American, December 1971, 80-88.
Delta T information
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McCarthy, D.D. and A.K. Babcock, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol. 44, 1986, 281-292.
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Morrison, L.V. and F.R. Stephenson, Historical eclipses and the variability of the Earth's rotation, Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 32(1-2), 2001, 247-265.
Technical Reading
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Eubanks, T.M. Variations in the Orientation of the Earth, in Contributions of Space Geodesy to Geodynamics: Earth Dynamics, D. Smith and D. Turcotte, eds., American Geophysical Union Monograph, Geodynamics Series, v. 24, 1993.
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Gross, R.S., Earth rotation variations — long period, in Physical Geodesy edited by T. A. Herring, Treatise on Geophysics vol. 11, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007.
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Lambeck, K., 1980, The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes and Consequences, Cambridge University Press, London.
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Munk W. H. and MacDonald, G. J. F., 1960, The Rotation of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, London.