Abstract
The seasonal variation in the zonal winds of the atmosphere are reexamined and estimated to account for a January to July change of 0.5 milliseconds in the length of the day. Thus only one third of the change in length of the day reported by the astronomers is explained by angular momentum transfers between the earth and atmosphere. The corresponding effect of the varying equilibrium body tide of the earth caused by changes in the sun’s distance and longitude is negligible.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v3i3.8638 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 117 - 121
Published on: Jan 1, 1951
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1951 Yale Mintz, Walter Munk, published by Stockholm University Press
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