[IGSMAIL-6525] SE21 session in Solid Earth Sciences (SE) at AOGS-AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly 2012

John C. Ries ries at csr.utexas.edu
Thu Jan 19 20:58:57 PST 2012


Dear Colleagues,

The AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly will be held in Singapore, 13 to 
17 August 2012. We would like to draw your attention in particular to 
session "SE21 Monitoring the large scale mass redistribution and 
surface displacement "

This session is intended to discuss the mass transport between the 
atmosphere, ocean and solid earth results in the temporal variations 
in the Earth gravity field and the loading-induced deformation of the 
Earth. Recent space-borne observations, such as the GRACE mission, 
are providing extremely high precision temporal variations of the 
gravity field. The results from 9 years of GRACE data have shown 
significant annual large-scale vertical and horizontal displacements 
occurring over the Amazon, Himalayan region and South Asia, North 
Australia, Africa, and Russia with a few mm amplitude. Improved 
understanding from monitoring and modeling of the large-scale mass 
redistribution, and the Earth's response to that loading, are 
essential for all studies in the geosciences, in particular for 
determination of the Terrestrial Reference System (TRS), including 
geocenter motion. The session solicits contributions from analysis 
and comparison of models and the observations of crustal 
displacements from space geodetic techniques including GPS, SLR, 
DORIS, VLBI, GNSS, and inSAR.

We invite you to consider submitting a paper for this session and 
participate in the meeting, or contact us directly if you have any 
questions. The abstract deadline is March 12, 2012. You can find more 
information at the AOGS web site:

http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012

Sincerely,

Minkang Cheng, cheng at csr.utexas.edu, CSR, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Tonie van Dam, tonie.vandam at uni.lu, University of Luxembourg



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