The Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is an NSF funded project that develops, supports, and disseminates community-accessible software for the geodynamics research community. CIG software supports a variety of computational geodynamic research from mantle and core dynamics, to crustal and earthquake dynamics, to magma migration and seismology. To support this type of project a ...

Geodesy is the science of the measurement and mapping of the Earth’s surface, and in this context it is also the science that defines and realizes coordinates and associated coordinate systems. Geodesy thus is the foundation for all applications of GNSS. This chapter presents the reference systems needed to describe coordinates of points on the Earth’s surface or in near space and to relate coo...

Sergey Samsonov,1,2 John Beavan,1 Pablo J. González,3 Kristy Tiampo3 and José Fernández4,5 1GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected] 2European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Walferdange, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg 3Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 4Instituto de Astronomia y Geodesia (CSIC-UCM), Fac. C. Matematicas, M...

Taku Tsuchiya, Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Cesar R. S. da Silva, Stefano de Gironcoli 4, 5 and Jun Tsuchiya 1 Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA 3 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Technology and Advanced Computations, University of M...