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A diurnal resonance in the ocean tide and in the Earth's load response due to the resonant free ‘core nutation’
Author(s) -
Wahr John M.,
Sasao† Tetsuo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1981.tb02693.x
Subject(s) - nutation , resonance (particle physics) , sidereal time , earth (classical element) , geology , earth's rotation , geophysics , core (optical fiber) , geodesy , oceanography , physics , atmospheric sciences , atomic physics , astrophysics , astronomy , optics
Summary. The luni‐solar forced nutations and body tide are believed to be resonant at frequencies near (1 + 1/460) cycle sidereal day −1 as seen from the rotating Earth. This resonance is due to the Earth's rotating, elliptical fluid core. We show here that tides in the open ocean and the Earth's response to those tides must also be resonant at (1 + 1/460) cycle day −1 . We examine these resonant oceanic effects on the Earth's nutational motion and on the body tide. Effects on the forced nutations might be as large as 0.002 arcsec at 18.6 yr. The effects on the observed resonance in the body tide are more important. For tidal gravity, for example, the difference between K 1 and 0 1 which is usually used to determine the resonance, can be perturbed by 30 per cent or more due to the oceanic resonance effects.

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