The Investigation of Atmospheric Angular Momentum as a Contributor to Polar Wobble and Length of Day Change with AMIP II GCM Data

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 287-296

  Zhong, Min ^a,b   Yan, Haoming ^a   Zhu, Yaozhong ^a,b  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric Angular Momentum (AAM); Atmospheric Model Inter comparison Project (AMIP); Earth rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346044126     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-002-0023-y     Document Type: Article

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