Nontidal oceanic excitation of nutation and diurnal/semidiurnal polar motion revisited

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1-14

  Brzeziński, Aleksander ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^b   Ali, Ahmed H ^c  

^a Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth rotation; Nutation; Oceanic excitation; Polar motion

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; MODELING; NUTATION; POLAR MOTION;

EID: 14344260332     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003054     Document Type: Article

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