Sentences with phrase «rotation by a fraction»
During El Niño events, strong winds can slow Earth's rotation by a fraction of a millisecond every 24 hours.
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The sustainable deviation from the rotation at the angular velocity of the Earth can not be a large fraction of that as it's a net value calculated from opposite effects caused by Easterlies and Westerlies with a contribution from the eddies.