Geocenter movements due to air pressure

I offer the following three files,

Inverted Barometer (compressed /uncompressed)

Inverted Barometer with uniform ocean mass conservation (compressed /uncompressed)

No inverted Barometer (compressed /uncompressed)

containing time series of geocenter pressure terms from global barometric fields at 6h interval, starting September 1, 1993 and ending April 30, 1997.

 Since I am working on 3D atmospheric loading effects on GPS and VLBI sites, the geocentre data is some sort of crumbs from the table. Maybe it's of use to somebody out there.

 Here's a piece of the data:

#1   1993sep01:00 -3.0427E+01 -1.4865E+00 -4.9236E-01
#2   1993sep01:06 -3.0414E+01 -3.8328E+00  2.0049E+00
#3   1993sep01:12 -3.1014E+01 -2.2598E+00  5.4210E+00
#4   1993sep01:18 -3.1778E+01 -2.8119E-01  3.0734E+00
#1   1993sep02:00 -3.1679E+01 -4.7337E+00 -7.7052E-01
#2   1993sep02:06 -3.1089E+01 -7.5288E+00  2.6673E+00
#3   1993sep02:12 -3.1452E+01 -6.3393E+00  7.3603E+00
#4   1993sep02:18 -3.1715E+01 -4.2939E+00  6.4772E+00
#1   1993sep03:00 -3.1722E+01 -6.3536E+00  6.3968E+00
#2   1993sep03:06 -3.1948E+01 -8.6388E+00  1.0367E+01
#3   1993sep03:12 -3.2036E+01 -4.3013E+00  1.4295E+01
#4   1993sep03:18 -3.3413E+01  7.5801E-01  1.2253E+01

       Y  M  D  H     z            x            y            

H = UT hour
z = positive toward north pole, 
x = positive toward zero longitude in equatorial plane, 
y = positive toward 90 longitude.

The persistently increasing date order cannot be guaranteed;

use grep or a similar tool.

To obtain geocenter displacement in millimetre, multiply by -0.4418.

 The units in the file are hectopascal times a factor 4pi/3 due to the integration over the sphere.

10^5*G*R/g^2 = 0.4418 mm/hPa
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