Consistent modeling of the effects of the diurnal tidal potential

Abstract

This paper presents on outline of an integrated treatment of solid Earth deformations, ocean tides, wobbles of the mantle and the core regions, and the nutations associated with the mantle wobble, all resulting from the action of the tesseral tide generating potential(TGP) with its spectrum of nearly diurnal frequencies. The interplay of these phenomena makes such a treatment necessary for accurate computation of any of these responses to forcing in the diurnal tidal band, including that of the Love and Shida number parameters and the gravimetric factor parameters, which characterize the Earth's deformational response.