[LEAPSECS] What happened in the late 1990s to slow the rate of leap seconds?

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:

> On Tue 2015-11-10T11:37:10 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
> > Major earthquakes have been reported to have a detectable effect,
> > but only at the level of a microsecond glitch, right?
>
> The calculated changes in LOD due to earthquakes reported in the news
> have been smaller than the typical variations in LOD that happen on a
> weekly basis due to weather.  Folks in the earth rotation bureaus want
> to see a detectable earthquake-induced LOD change so that they can
> publish, but I haven't seen such a paper.  I believe that it is easier
> to find the effect of a large snowstorm in the LOD data.


what about the effects of glacial melt? Can LOD changes be tied to that?

Warner
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