DR. WILSON - SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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DR. WILSON



Selected Publications: potential fields, geodesy, hydrology, and seismology

Wilson, C. and R. Haubrich, Meteorological Excitation of the Earth's Wobble, Geophysical Journal Royal Astronomical Society,
46, 707-743, 1976.

 

Wilson, C. and R. Haubrich, Atmospheric Contributions to the Excitation of the Earth's Wobble 1901-1970,  Geophysical
Journal Royal Astronomical Society, 46, 745-760, 1976.

 

Wilson, C. and R. Haubrich, Earthquakes, Weather, and Wobble, Geophysical Research Letters, 4, 283-284, July, 1977.

 

Wilson, C., Comments and Additional Investigations Concerning Chandler Tides in the Atmosphere, Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 12, 2381-2387, 1978.

 

Wilson, C.,  "Estimation of the Parameters of the Earth's Polar Motion:  in International Astronomical Union Symposium 82: 
Time and the Earth's Rotation, D. McCarthy, Editor, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1979.

 

Wilson, C. and Vicente, R.,  Analysis of the Homogeneous ILS Series,  Geophysical Journal Royal Astronomical Society, 62,
601-611, 1980.

 

Wilson, C. and Gabay, S.,  Excitation of the Earth's Polar Motion:  A Reassessment With New Data,  Geophysical Research
Letters, 8, 7, 745, 1981.

 

Wilson, C. and Vicente, R.,  Estimates of Chandler's Component of Polar Motion Made From Various Data Sets, 
Astronomische Nachrichten, 302, 5, 1981.

 

Ebeniro, J., Wilson, C., and Dorman, J.,  "Propagation of Dispersed Compressional and Rayleigh waves on the Texas
Coastal Plain", Geophysics, 48, 1, 1983.

 

Wilson, C., and Smith, D.,  Cooling rate estimates from mineral zonation:  resolving power and applications:  Proceedings III
Intern. Kimb. Conf., Volume 2, Kornprobst, ed.,  Developments in Petrology, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1984.

 

Wilson, C., Discrete Polar Motion Equations, Geophysical Journal Royal Astronomical Society, 80, 551-554, 1985.

 

Smith, D. and Wilson, C., Garnet-Olivine Equilibration During Cooling in the Mantle.  American Mineralogist, 70, 30-39, 1985.

 

Wilson, C. and Smith, D., A Numerical Study of Mineral Zoning Formed During the Cooling of Finite Volume Grains.  Journal of
Geophysical Research, 90, 10351-10358, 1985.

 

Vicente, R. and Wilson, C., Polar Motion estimates from linear combinations of independent series,  Astronomische
Nachrichten, 307, 2, 137-147, 1986.

 

Wilson, C., The Abel-Fourier Method of Hankel Transformation:  Applications to Seismic Data, Geophysical Prospecting, 34,1986.

 

Hinnov, L. and Wilson, C.,  An Estimate of the Water Storage Contribution to the Excitation of Polar Motion.  Geophysical
Journal, Royal Astronomical Society, 88, 437-459, 1987.

 

Li, Z. and Wilson, C.,  A Damped Oscillator Model of the 50 Day Oscillation in the Length of the Day (in Chinese),  Acta
Astronomica Sinica: 28, 29-38, 1987.

 

Gutierrez, R. and Wilson, C.,  Seasonal Air and Water Mass Redistribution Effects on LAGEOS and Starlette, Geophysical
Research Letters, 14, 9, 929-932, l987.

 

Wilson, C and Vicente, R.,  The Combination of Polar Motion Observations, International Astronomical Union
Symposium 128 "Earth Rotation and Reference Frames", Wilkins and Babcock, editors, D. Reidel, 1988.

 

Wilson, C., Kuehne, J., and Li, Z.,  Computation of Water Storage Contributions to Polar Motion, International
Astronomical Union Symposium 128 "Earth Rotation and Reference Frames", Wilkins and Babcock, editors, D. Reidel,
1988.

 

Dobbs, S., Wilson, C., and Backus, M, Accounting for limited spatial aperture in the waveform inversion of p-tau seismograms. 
Geophysics 55, 4, 452-457, 1990.

 
Wilson, C. and Kuehne, J. "Air and Water Contributions to the Excitation of Polar Motion," International Association of Geodesy
Symposium 105, Earth Rotation and Coordinate Reference Frames, C. Boucher and G. Wilkins Editors, Springer Verlag, 1990.

 

Wilson, C. and Vicente, R.,  Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Polar Motion Parameters, American Geophysical Union
Geophysical Monograph 59, "Variations in Earth Rotation", 1990, D. McCarthy and W. Carter  Editors.

 

Kuehne, J. and Wilson, C.,  Mean Monthly Terrestrial Water Storage and Polar Motion, American Geophysical Union Geophysical
Monograph  59 "Variations in Earth Rotation", 1990, D. McCarthy and W. Carter Editors.

 

Kuehne, J. and Wilson, C., Terrestrial Water Storage and Polar Motion, Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, B3, 4337-4345,
1991.

 

Wilson, C.,  "Polar Motion and Earth Rotation", in Encyclopedia of Earth System Science, W. Nierenberg, editor, Academic
Press,  1991.

 

Wilson, C., 1993, Contributions of Water Mass Redistribution to Polar Motion Excitation,  in American Geophysical Union
Geophysical Monograph Series, v. 24, Contributions of Space Geodesy to Geodynamics: Earth Dynamics, Smith
and Turcotte editors, 77-82.

 

Kuehne, J., Johnson, S., and Wilson, C., 1993. Atmospheric Excitation of non-seasonal Polar Motion.  Journal of
Geophysical Research,98,B11, 19973-19978.

 

Hoar, T. and Wilson, C., 1994, Geosat Observations of Sea Level Response to Barometric Pressure Forcing, Geophysical
Research Letters, 21,23,2515-2518.

 

Wilson, C., 1995. Earth Rotation and Global Change, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 33, Supplement, US
National Report to the IUGG 1991-1994, 225-229.

 

McElroy, J., and members of the NRC Committee on Earth Studies including C. Wilson, 1995, Earth Observations From
Space, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council (with separate executive summary)

 

Kuehne, J., Wilson, C., and Johnson, S., 1996. Estimates of the Chandler Wobble Frequency and Q., Journal of Geophysical
Research v. 101, B6, 13573-13580.

 

Wilson, C., and Chen, J., 1996. Discrete Polar Motion Equations for High Frequencies. Journal of Geodesy. v. 70, no. 9.

 

Wilson, C., G. Tsoflias, M. Bartelmann, and J. Phillips, 1997. A high precision aeromagnetic survey near the Glen Hummel
Field in Texas; Identification of cultural and sedimentary anomaly sources, The Leading Edge of Geophysics,
January 1997.

 

Vicente, R., and Wilson, C., 1997, On the Variability of the Chandler frequency, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, B9,
20439-20445.

 

Dehant, V., Wilson, C. Salstein, D., Chao, B., Gross, R., LeProvost, C, Ponte, R., Study of Earth’s Rotation and
Geophysical Fluids Progresses, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 78, 34, p. 357, August 26, 1997.

 

Wilson, C.R., Oceanic Effects on Earth’s Rotation Rate, Science, 281, 5383, September 11, 1998, 1623-1624.

 

Chen, J.L., C. R. Wilson, D.P. Chambers, R.S. Nerem, and B.D. Tapley, Seasonal global water mass budget and mean sea
level variations, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 19, 3555-3558, October 1, 1998.

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, R.J. Eanes, and R.S. Nerem, Geophysical Interpretation of Observed Geocenter Variations, J.
              Geophys. Res., Vol. 104, No. B2, 2683 - 2690, 1999.

 

Johnson, T.J., C.R. Wilson, B.F. Chao. Oceanic Angular Momentum Variability Estimated From The Parallel Ocean Climate
Model, 1988-1998, J. Geophysical Res., Vol. 104, B11, pp. 25183-25195, Nov. 10, 1999.

 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.F. Chao, C.K. Shum, BD Tapley, Hydrological and Oceanic Excitations to Polar Motion and Length-
of-day Variation, G. J. Internat., 2000, v. 141.

 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, R.J. Eanes, and B.D. Tapley, Geophysical Contributions to Satellite Nodal Residual Variation, J.
Geophys. Res. v. 104, B10, 23237-23244, 1999.

 

Chen, J.L., C.K. Shum, C.R. Wilson, and D.P. Chambers, B.D. Tapley, Seasonal Sea Level Change from TOPEX/Poseidon
Observation and Thermal Contribution, Journal of Geodesy, 2000, v. 73, 638-647.

 

Chao, B.F. ,V. Dehant, R. Gross, R. Ray, D. Salstein, M. Watkins, C.R. Wilson, Space Geodesy Monitors Mass
Transport in Global Geophysical Fluids, EOS Transactions of the AGU, 81, 22, ,p. 247-249, May 30, 2000

 

Wilson, C., Excitation of Polar Motion in IAU Colloquium. 178, Polar Motion: Historical and Scientific Problems, Dick, McCarthy,
and Luzum eds., Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, ISBN 1-58381-039-0, 2000.

 

Wilson, C.  Geodetic and Geophysical Applications of High Precision Astrometry, pp. 182-186 in IAU Colloquium 180 Towards
Models and Constants for Sub-Microsecond Astrometry, Proceedings, Johnston, McCarthy, Luzum, and Kaplan eds.
US Naval Observatory, Washington DC, 2000

 

Chen, J. L., C. R. Wilson, R. J.  Eanes, and B. D. Tapley,  A new assessment of long-wavelength gravitational variations,  J.
Geophys. Res. Vol. 105 , No.B7 ,16,271-16,278, 2000.

 

Johnson, T.J., C.R. Wilson, B.F. Chao, 'Non-tidal oceanic contributions to gravity field changes: predictions of the Parallel
Ocean Climate Model' J. Geophys. Res., 106, B6 11315-11334, 2001.

 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, D.P. Chambers, and T. Pekker, Hydrological Impacts on Seasonal Sea Level Change,
Global and Planetary Change, Volume 32, Issue 1, 25-32, 2001.

 

Vicente, R.O, and C.R. Wilson, On Long Period Polar Motion, Journal of Geodesy, 2002, 76:199-208

 

Nuth V, J. Pulliam, C. R. Wilson, Migration of Radar Altimeter Waveform Data, Geophysical Research
Letters, 2002, 10.1029/2001GL014015, 31 May 2002

 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, and T. Pekker, Contributions of Hydrological Processes to Sea Level Change, Physics
and Chemistry of  the Earth, Vol. 27, 1439-1443, 2002.

 

Seo K, Wilson C, Famiglietti J, Filters to estimate water storage variations from GRACE, Proceedings of the IAG Assembly 2003,
A Window on the Future of Geodesy, F. Sanso ed, Springer, Berlin, 2004.

 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, X.G. Hu, Zhou YH , Tapley BD, Oceanic Effects on Polar Motion determined from an ocean model and
satellite altimetry: 1993 - 2001, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B02411, 2004.

 

Chen, J.L., Wilson CR, X.G. Hu, B.D. Tapley, Large-Scale Mass Redistribution in the Oceans, 1993 - 2001, Geophy. Res. Lett.,
30,20, 2024,doi: 10.1029/2003GL018048, 2003

 

Hu, X.G., J.L. Chen, Cheng Huang, B.D. Tapley, C.R. Wilson, Non-Tidal Oceanic Contribution to the Earth's Dynamic Oblateness
Change, Chinese Acta of Geophysics, 2003 (in press).

 

Chen, JL., Wilson CR, Low Degree Gravitational Changes from Earth Rotation and Geophysical Models, Geophy. Res. Lett., Vol.
30, No. 24, 2257, L018688, 2003.

 

Wilson CR, Chen JL. Estimating the Period and Q of the Chandler Wobble.  Cahiers du Centre Europeen de Geodynamique et
de Seismology, 24,23-29, 2005

 

Chen JL, Wilson, CR and Tapley BD, Interannual variability of low degree gravitational change 1980-2002, J. of Geodesy,
78,535-543, 2005.

 

Rodell M, Famiglietti JS, Chen J, Seneviratne SI Viterbo P, Holl S, Wilson CR , Basin scale estimates of evapotranspiration
using GRACE and other observations, Geophys. Res Letters, 31, L20504, 2004.

 

Chen, JL, Wilson, CR, Tapley BD, Ries JC, Low degree gravitation changes from GRACE: Validation and interpretation,
Geophys. Res. Letters, 31 L22607, 2004.

 

Vicente RO, Wilson CR, The need for a new definition of a conventional international origin, J. of Geodesy, 2005,
DOI 10.1007/s00190-005-0469-7.

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, J. Ries, B.D. Tapley, Low Degree Gravitational Changes from GRACE, Earth Rotation, and Geophysical Models,  in New Satellite Mission Results for the Geopotential Fields and Their Variations, edited by C. Reigber &  B. Tapley, Special Issue of Advances in Geosciences, 2005 (submitted).
 

Famiglietti, J.S., Chen, J.L., M. Rodell, C.R. Wilson, Terrestrial Water Storage Variations From GRACE, in New Satellite Mission Results for the Geopotential Fields and Their Variations, edited by C. Reigber &  B. Tapley, Special Issue of Advances in Geosciences, 2005 (submitted).
 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, J. S. Famiglietti, and M. Rodell, Spatial Sensitivity of GRACE Time-Variable Gravity Observations, 2005, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B08408, doi:10.1029/2004JB003536..
 

Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, Hydrological Excitations of Polar Motion,1993 -2002, Geophys. J. Inter., 160,833-839 2005.
 

Seo, KW, Wilson CR, Estimating GRACE Aliasing Errors, GGSM2004 IAG Symposium on Gravity, Geoid, and Space Missions, International Association of Geodesy Symposium Volume 129, Springer, 2005,339-345.
 

Han, S.-C., C.K. Shum, C. Jekeli, C.-Y. Kuo, C. Wilson, K.-W. Seo, Non-isotropic Filtering of GRACE Temporal Gravity for Geophysical Signal Enhancement, Geophysical Journal International, 163(1), 18-25, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02756.x, 2005.
 

Chen JL, Rodell M, Wilson CR Famiglietti JS, Low Degree Spherical Harmonic Influences on GRACE Water Storage Estimates, Geophys. Res. Let., 32, L14405, 2005.
 

Seo KW and Wilson CR, Simulated estimation of hydrological loads from GRACE, J. of Geodesy, 78, 442-456, 2005.
 

Seo KW, Wilson CR, Famiglietti JS, Chen JL, Rodell, M, Terrestrial Water Mass Load Changes from GRACE, Water Resources Research, submitted March 2005, in revision.
 

Chen JL,  Wilson CR ,  Tapley BD, Famiglietti JS, Rodell M, Seasonal Global Mean Sea Level Change From Satellite Altimeter, GRACE, and Geophysical Models, J. of Geodesy, accepted, 2005.
 

Chen JL, Wilson CR, Famiglietti JS, Rodell, M, Tapley BD, Restoring Seasonal Basin-Scale Water Storage Change from Smoothed GRACE Time Variable Gravity, Geophys Res. Lett. (submitted).

 


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