On an annual basis, as detailed in Paul Vaughans post today, there is a big exchange of angular momentum betwen the Earth's crust and the atmosphere causing changes in
atmospheric angular momentum and length of day.
Thermal wind forcing &
atmospheric angular momentum: Origin of the Earth's delayed response to ENSO.
I have compared it to water vapor levels, OLR, precipitation, rotation of the Earth, SOI, Pacific subsurface temperatures, Trade Winds, cloud patterns, precipitation,
atmospheric angular momentum, the AMO, tropical / global temperatures, and the spatial distribution of those temperature changes.
This quasi-phase space diagram plots standardized anomalies of global relative
atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) on the y - axis and global relative AAM time tendency on the x-axis.
Effects of climate change scenarios on wind regimes and atmospheric mass distribution, and consequent
atmospheric angular momentum effects
Similarly, the integral of global
atmospheric angular momentum will reveal the 1976 climate shift.
Start by isolating the solar - terrestrial - climate weave from earth rotation & global
atmospheric angular momentum records.
not modeling — rather more duly careful attention to key lessons from hard - constrained earth rotation &
atmospheric angular momentum records (there's nowhere to hide from this stuff...)
Concerning
atmospheric angular momentum, it's overall size tells that it can not vary enough to explain variability in LOD beyond about 1 ms. Actual calculations of AAM confirm its role.
The short term variability (up to a few years) reflects directly the variability in
atmospheric angular momentum and can be used as indicator of that.
From their Figure 1 you can see, how variations in calculated
atmospheric angular momentum correspond exactly to the short - term variability of LOD, but are totally inadequate to explain multi-year variability.
We can consider similarly the role of
atmospheric angular momentum (AAM).
They propose mechanisms that are not related to
the atmospheric angular momentum but to the core - mantle interaction and geomagnetic fields.
Interannual signals in length of day and
atmospheric angular momentum.
The winds are known well enough for the calculation of
atmospheric angular momentum with a satisfactory accuracy.
They compared those events with changes in the Global Wind Oscillation (GWO) index, a collection of climate and weather information that measures
atmospheric angular momentum, or the degree of waviness in the jet stream.
Not exact matches
In a paper published today in the journal Nature Geoscience,
atmospheric scientists at MIT propose a possible mechanism for Saturn's polar cyclones: Over time, small, short - lived thunderstorms across the planet may build up
angular momentum, or spin, within the atmosphere — ultimately stirring up a massive and long - lasting vortex at the poles.
His unflashy, thoughtful,
atmospheric installation — recalling a shady public park with trees whose
angular aluminium leaves filter the light to a gentle dapple — impressed the judges with its subtle poetry.
The Sun, Jupiter, gravitational moment of the remaining planets, Earth
angular orbit variations of all kinds, galactic rays, motion of the solar system through the galaxy and dust clouds, the Moon,
atmospheric water vapor, ocean currents, configuration of the tectonic plates and continental drift, volcanic activity, the natural biosphere, human urban development, human alteration of the greenhouse water cycle (dam's, rivers etc),,... human produced CO2.
Dr. Nehrkorn's 30 year research tenure at AER has included work on numerical weather prediction models, data assimilation systems, humidity to cloud relationships, three dimensional analysis of
atmospheric quantities and studies of the
angular momentum budget of the atmosphere.
In the so - called model numerics, a great deal of care is used in formulating the differential equation solution approach so as to explicitly conserve a number of quantities (mass, energy, water substance,
angular momentum, linear momentum, vorticity) that are all important for the accurate representation of
atmospheric dynamics.
Through baroclinic instability, the potential energy associated with temperature gradients is converted into the energy in
atmospheric eddies that dominate the heat and
angular momentum transport poleward of the subsiding region of the Hadley cell.