Sentences with phrase «tidal effects caused»

Since a thinner ice shell retains less heat, the tidal effects caused by Saturn on the large fractures in the ice at the south pole are no longer enough to explain the strong heat flow affecting this region.

Its mantle deforms elastically due to tidal effects caused by the Moon.

Not exact matches

Hamers: «Gravity can cause strong tidal effects, just as the moon's gravity causes high and low tide on earth.

Over the long night, when the Arctic Ocean is mostly totally frozen, the only (non cyclonic) clouds that be are caused by leads (from open water), caused by tidal and wind effects, there are no other aside from ocean air flows.

I'm not saying there's direct cause and effect, but it's almost as if the tidal wave of dire pronouncements about the imminent unraveling of the earth's climate and ecosystems several years ago hit a shore and rebounded in a way that now threatens to inundate the source.

What's left are some higher order effects of the same nature that causes tides on the Earth, but the tidal effects of Saturn on the Sun are really minimal.

I am not happy with the JEV theory (although I can't really judge), because even tidal effects on Earth caused by a relatively large and close Moon only have small, superficial effects.

The Lunar tidal effects act in concert with the changes in the overall level of solar activity and so appear to «amplify» the changes caused by the Sun.

The melting of grounded polar ice causes the earth to slow down, but when the melting is over, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment causes LOD to decrease, and since the advent of the atomic clock — in the 50's — we have been in a period of slightly decreasing LOD — enough to more than offset the effect of tidal friction.