Importance of wind for the excitation of Chandler wobble as inferred from wobble domain analysis

Journal of Physics of the Earth

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-188

  Furuya, Masato ^a,c   Hamano, Yozo ^a   Naito, Isao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANDLER WOBBLE; PLANETARY ROTATION; WIND; WOBBLE DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031407547     PISSN: 00223743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4294/jpe1952.45.177     Document Type: Article

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