Observing and Understanding Earth Rotation October 25-28, 2010, Shanghai, China

Objectives of the workshop: The purpose of the workshop is to assess our current ability to observe the Earth's time varying rotation; to assess our current understanding of the causes of the observed variations; to assess the consistency of Earth rotation observations with global gravity and shape observations; to explore methods of combining Earth rotation, gravity, and shape observations to gain greater understanding of the mass load acting on the surface of the solid Earth; and to identify improvements in the global geodetic observing system needed to further our understanding of the Earth's variable rotation.