The Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Twenty-Seven Stations Widely Distributed Over the Globe

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Dec 1948

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 195, Issue 1042, pp. 310-323

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Determinations of the lunar atmospheric tide at twenty-seven stations, in America, Africa and other parts of the world, have been made by the Chapman-Miller method from bi-hourly values of the barometric pressure extending, in the aggregate for the twenty-seven stations, over about 500 years. Examination of the results thus obtained reveals the following: (1) The amplitude c2 decreases with increasing latitude, though the decrease is not quite regular. (2) The phase angles θ 2 are in the usual quadrant, betokening a lag of high tide after the moon's transit, though the lag itself differs from station to station. (3) At almost all the stations the lunar air-tide undergoes a very appreciable annual change; a reduction in the values of both θ 2 and c2 occurs in both hemispheres near the December solstice. (4) No very appreciable variation of the air-tide with height has been found up to about 3350 m. (5) In the U.S.A. the tide has a notable reduction of c2 on the western coast, but no striking contrast in the case of θ 2 can be noted. (6) Several stations in East Africa, together with Singapore and Batavia, show results which indicate a specially interesting region where the tide has the biggest amplitude found anywhere on the surface of the earth, and where the phase lag is normal. (7) An asymmetrical distribution of c2 about the equator in the same continent (Africa) is also very surprising and requires proper interpretation.

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