Relation between length-of-day variation and angular momentum of geophysical fluids

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Chao, Benjamin F ^a,b   Yan, Haoming ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; COUPLING; ESTIMATION METHOD;

EID: 78049520994     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB007024     Document Type: Article

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