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The Interaction Between Earth's Rotation and Geophysical Processes

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John Wiley & Sons, Aug 14, 2009 - Science - 318 pages
Filling an important gap in the geophysical literature at specialist level, this monograph is the only up-to-date title to provide a link between the Earth's rotation and its atmo- and hydrosphere, including the ice masses.
Starting with the Earth's motions, the text goes on to look at irregularities and the effect of atmospheric processes on the Earth's spin. Tides and seasons occupy the following sections before a discussion of the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system and the mechanical action of the atmosphere on the Earth's rotation. The whole is rounded off by an index of abbreviations and appendices with sections on related physics for better readability, plus a comprehensive bibliography for further reading.
A must for geophysicists, oceanographers, glaciologists, climatologists and meteorologists alike.
  

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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Motions of the Earth
9
3 Polar Motion and Irregularities in the Earths Rotation Rate
27
4 Estimation Theory of the Effect of Atmospheric Processes on the Earths Spin
41
5 Tides and the Earths Rotation
63
6 The AirMass Seasonal Redistribution and the Earths Rotation
99
7 Angular Momentum of Atmospheric Winds
119
8 Nature of the Zonal Circulation of the Atmosphere
153
10 Mechanical Action of the Atmosphere on the Earths Rotation
211
11 Decadal Fluctuations in Geophysical Processes
225
12 Geodynamics and Weather Predictions
249
13 Conclusion
261
Appendices
263
References
283
Index
297
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9 Interannual Oscillations of the EarthOceanAtmosphere System
189

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Professor Nikolay S. Sidorenkov is the head of the Global Atmospheric Circulation Lab of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center. Before aussuming this post, he has held research positions at various Astronomical institutions. More than 180 papers give proof of his research experience.

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