Super-rotation of Upper Atmosphere

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May 1971

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Nature, Volume 231, Issue 5298, pp. 109-110 (1971).

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RECENT publications1,2 report that the mean rotational speed of the Earth's upper atmosphere at altitudes of about 200-400 km is faster than that of the Earth. Rishbeth3 has suggested that an induced electric polarization field at low latitudes plays a part in this ``super-rotation''. We offer here an alternative explanation, based on the Scott effect4.

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