Atmospheric angular momentum fluctuations and changes in the length of the day

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Jul 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980natur.286..114h&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 286, Issue 5769, pp. 114-117 (1980).

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Fluctuations in the angular momentum of the Earth's atmosphere correspond fairly well with equal and opposite fluctuations in the angular momentum of the Earth's `solid' mantle. A decrease of 20% of the relative angular momentum of the atmosphere during the second half of May 1979 was accompanied by a speeding up of the rotation of the mantle causing the length of the day (l.o.d.) to decrease by 0.6 × 10-3 s. Although motions in the Earth's liquid core produce the more pronounced `decade' variations in the l.o.d. there is no evidence that core motions produce l.o.d. variations on much shorter time-scales.

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