Sentences with phrase «earth rotation axis»

It is found that the El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is driven not only by the seasonal heating, but also by three more external periodicities (incommensurate to the annual period) associated with the ~ 18.6 - year lunar - solar nutation of the Earth rotation axis, ~ 11 - year sunspot activity cycle and the ~ 14 - month Chandler wobble in the Earth's pole motion.

Not exact matches

Also, sun set and sun rise are predominantly caused by the rotation of the Earth around its own axis, and only in small part by its orbit around the sun.

The conservation of angular momentum applied to the flotsam that became earth caused the poles (the 2 points where the earth intersects the axis of rotation.

Note also that the work translated as «day» can also be translated as «age», and does not always refer to a 24 hour period (one rotation of the earth on it's axis).

Since neither the Earth's rotation around its axis, nor the direction of its axis, nor the Moon's orbit are perfectly regular, their combined effect on motion in the core is unstable and can cause fluctuations in the geodynamo.

The time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation is affected by anything that changes the distribution of the planet's mass relative to its axis of rotation.

Since the moon spins on its axis at the same speed it revolves around Earth, what scientists call synchronous rotation, you'll always have a good view of home.

In the simplest models of reversals, the Earth's magnetic field behaves like a bar magnet that points roughly along the planet's axis of rotation.

In 1993, Jacques Laskar of the Paris Observatory in France and colleagues showed that the moon helps stabilise the tilt of Earth's rotation axis against perturbations by Jupiter's gravity.

This is due to the thaw following the last ice age: the melting of glaciers lets the crust rebound, redistributing Earth's mass and leading to subtle changes in its axis of rotation.

The terrestrial North Pole is a fixed geographic point that's diametrically opposed to the terrestrial South Pole on our planet's axis of rotation; it's the top of the spinning top that's Earth.

Uranus» magnetic field and rotation axis are out of alignment by 59 degrees, unlike Earth's, whose magnetic field and rotation axis are nearly aligned.

Because Earth's axis of rotation points very close to Polaris, all other stars in the Northern Hemisphere appear to revolve around it.

The wobble in Earth's axis of rotation is a combination of two major components, each with its own cause.

By contrast, the four - meter Mayall telescope a few blocks away weighs 375 tons because it has an equatorial mount aligned with Earth's axis of rotation.

From Earth, big - dish radar can precisely measure the changing tilt of Mercury's rotation axis as well as what one of the co-authors calls «the planet doing the twist»: tiny changes in its rotation speed due to solar tides.

And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.

However, due to the rotation of Earth around its own axis, dark matter particles that come from the direction of the dark matter wind, travel different distances during the 24 hour period of a day.

That motion, over a period of months, would allow researchers to very accurately characterize the wobble in Mars's axis of rotation, and might therefore provide a long - sought answer to whether Mars has a molten core, as Earth does.

The position of the sun in our sky is dictated by the speed of Earth's rotation — it turns on its axis at a speed of 460 meters per second, or approximately 1,000 miles per hour!

The apparent movement of the sun across the sky is the result of Earth's rotation on its axis.

A decade ago, geophysicists observed that seismic waves from earthquakes that travel through the core parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation pass through the Earth between 2 and 4 seconds faster than if they travel parallel to the plane of the equator.

An analysis of recent measurements indicates that one of the main nonuniformities of the earth's rotation - its tendency to wobble gently about its rotation axis - may be excited by major earthquakes

This is in line with more recent studies that suggest that misalignment of magnetic field and rotation axes or turbulence may enhance early disk formation, producing disks of 100 times the Earth - Sun radius or larger.

What might happen, for instance, if an Earth - like planet rotated on its spin axis very slowly (a full rotation in 128 days rather than 24 hours?)

Thanks to the proximity and the fact that its axis of rotation points roughly in the Earth's direction, giving us a face - on - view of the developing planetary system, TW Hydrae is one of the most favorable targets for investigating planet formation.

In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving.

«A Moon-less Earth with the same mass, rotation rate, and orbit as today would have the direction of its spin axis vary chaotically between 0 and 90 degrees on time scales as short as 10 million years,» says Darren Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Penn State University and NAI member.

The impact pushes the moon off its axis into a closer rotation with the earth causing immediate and massive tsunamis that wipe out millions.

Verge was written in 24 - hours - a single rotation of the Earth upon its axis - as part of a challenge set down at the 1000 Monkeys, 1000 Typewriters forum (www.1km1kt.com).

This property arises from unassailable dynamic considerations having to do with the weak influence of the Earth's rotation in the tropics, where the local vertical is nearly perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation.

Regional variations arise because the Earth's gravity field is affected in multiple ways by the melt of ice, due to the direct effect of surface mass changes (the gravity field is determined by the distribution of mass), the consequent deformation of the Solid Earth (removing a load causes the Earth's surface to rebound, which in turn changes the distribution of the Earth's mass), the consequent redistribution of ocean water (the ocean surface is shaped by the gravity filed) and perturbations of the Earth's rotation axis (because of mass redistribution).

For example, the ice age — interglacial cycles that we have been locked in for the past few million years seem to be triggered by subtle changes in the earth's orbit around the sun and in its axis of rotation (the Milankovitch cycles) that then cause ice sheets to slowly build up (or melt away)... which changes the albedo (reflectance) of the earth amplifying this effect.

As for melting continental ice sheets, yes, that would increase the Earth's moment of inertia about its axis of rotation, leading to a slight increase in length of day.

If it is not yet the Earth's actual axis of rotation, are there plans to correct that little bit of physics in hopes of getting a better handle on heat flows over and around Greenland?

Then there are many cycles of earth rotation around the sun and on its own axis.

In addition to the the Sun, the interaction between the Earth, the big planets of Jupiter and Saturn on the Earth's rotation, axis, magnetosphere, etc., effect the amount of cosmic radiation that we receive.

Glacial cycles (ice ages) are set in motion by (1) periodic wobbles in the tilt of the Earth's rotation, (2) changes in the tilt of its axis, and (3) the shape of its orbit occurring over tens of thousands of years.

When an additional force acting at a distance from the Earth's rotational axis occurs, referred to as a torque, such as changes in surface winds, or the distribution of high and low pressure patterns, especially near mountains, it can act to change the rate of the Earth's rotation or even the direction of the rotational axis.

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The team found that as meltwater tries to rise above the surrounding denser seawater, earth's rotation causes it to spin quickly around a vertical axis, creating a vortex that ejects meltwater filaments sideways into the surrounding seawater.

The climate and weather at a location are fundamentally set by the relationships between the geometry of the earth, the geometry of the revolution of the earth around the sun, the relationship between Earth's axis of rotation and the plane of Earth's orbit, and the rotation of the earth about its earth, the geometry of the revolution of the earth around the sun, the relationship between Earth's axis of rotation and the plane of Earth's orbit, and the rotation of the earth about its earth around the sun, the relationship between Earth's axis of rotation and the plane of Earth's orbit, and the rotation of the earth about its Earth's axis of rotation and the plane of Earth's orbit, and the rotation of the earth about its Earth's orbit, and the rotation of the earth about its earth about its axis.

Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis.

As it turns out the Moon is relatively small and actually stabilizes the rotation axis, which is considered a favorable condition for life on Earth.

The wind and pressure systems of the Pacific conform closely to the planetary system — the patterns of air pressure and the consequent wind patterns that develop in the atmosphere of the Earth as a result of its rotation (Coriolis force) and the inclination of its axis (ecliptic) toward the Sun.

The obliquity of the ecliptic (an angle of 23.44 ° that is the difference between the planes of the Earth's rotation on its axis and its revolution around the Sun) limits the seasonal shifting of the Pacific trade - wind belts to about 5 ° of latitude.

Obliquity is the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation with respect to the plane of its orbit, which changes with a period of about 41,000 years.

Harvard University researchers has found that the Earth's rotation on its axis has slowed during the past 100 years as a result of climate change.

Earth's motions Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, the tilt of its axis, and the axis of its rotation affect the intensity of the seasons.

There is now very strong evidence that the root cause of these cycles lies in periodic variations in the earth's rotation axis and orbit around the sun.