Dennis D. McCarthy is a former Director of Time at the United States Naval Observatory. McCarthy also works for the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.^[1][2] In recognition of his work on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation, McCarthy was inducted into the Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame on 6 April 2023 at a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Naval Observatory.^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Pilkington, John D.H. (1979). Time and the Earth's Rotation. Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-277-0892-2.
• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Carter, William E., eds. (1990). Variations in Earth Rotation. American Geophysical Union. ISBN 978-0-87590-459-7.
• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Seidelmann, P. Kenneth (2009). Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics. Wiley. ISBN 978-3-527-62795-0.^[4]
  • 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1107197282.

Papers

• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Babcock, Alice K. (November 1986). "The length of day since 1656". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 44 (3): 281–292. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(86)90077-4. ISSN 0031-9201.
• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Luzum, Brian J. (March 1991). "Prediction of Earth orientation". Bulletin Géodésique. 65 (1): 18–21. doi:10.1007/BF00806338. ISSN 0007-4632.
• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Luzum, Brian J. (May 1996). "Path of the Mean Rotational Pole From 1899 to 1994". Geophysical Journal International. 125 (2): 623–629. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb00024.x. eISSN 1365-246X. ISSN 0956-540X.
• McCarthy, Dennis D.; Hackman, Christine; Nelson, Robert A. (7 October 2008). "The Physical Basis of the Leap Second". The Astronomical Journal. 136 (5): 1906–1908. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/136/5/1906. eISSN 1538-3881. ISSN 0004-6256.