Update (26th March 2015): Indeed, a recent paper by Jens Morten Hansen et al. has suggested that, after accounting for the post-glacial rebound effects discussed above, the 18.6
year lunar cycle (and multiples of it) can explain most of the non-linear trends in the sea level data for the North Sea and Baltic Sea — see Hansen et al., 2015 (Abstract).
However, there do also seem to be lunar and solar cycles which take place over longer timescales, e.g., the 18.6
year lunar cycle.
The 18.6
years lunar cycles are prominent and have sometimes been mistaken for short - time accelerations of the mean sea level.
Not exact matches
The Muslim
year is a
lunar year divided into twelve months with the odd months having thirty days and the even having twenty - nine, with 354 days most
years, but 355 days eleven
years in each
cycle of thirty.
Mike — With
years of practice, I know when people are on a
lunar cycle.
The so - called Metonic
cycle is based on the near equivalence of 235
lunar months to 19 solar
years.
The researchers then went back to analyze historical data on E. foeminea's pollination periods in previous
years and compared them with
lunar cycles from the same
year.
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.
They report a strong peak in both the AMO and the PDO data at around 9.1
years and a weaker peak at about twice the period of the strong peak, both of which may be the result of the
lunar precession
cycle or the 18.6
year precession of the nodes of the moon.
The authors of the BEST AMO paper do mention in the discussion section that the 9.1
year peak, which their analysis found in the AMO and PDO, could be the result of the
lunar tidal
cycle.
In other words, they found that once post-glacial rebound effects and
lunar cycle effects had been accounted for, the sea level rise had essentially been constant (1.18 mm /
year) since at least the start of the tidal gauge records (1849).
If that's the case then they clearly have not done a good job, because the 6
year cycle in the absolute strength of
lunar tides is still clearly visible in the data.
Every 9
years (approx) there is a collapse in the world's domestic land markets (corresponding to the
Lunar Apse
Cycle = 8.85
years) and every 18
years there is a huge collapse into economic depression as the commercial, agricultural and (again) domestic land markets die more or less together (which corresponds to the
Lunar Nodal
Cycle = 18.6
years).
What is even more remarkable, is the fact that common frequencies seen in the two data sets [i.e. the flux optical depth anomaly and the SOI index] are simply those that would be expected if ENSO phenomenon is a resonant response of the Earth's (atmospheric / oceanic) climate system brought about by a coupling between it and the Earth's forced (18.6
year Nodical
Lunar Cycle) and unforced (1.2
year Chandler Wobble) nutations.
The researchers conclude that since 1850, climate records indicate that adding the 18.6
year lunar Nodic
cycle to the 11
year solar activity
cycle is helpful in explaining the decadal modulations of the ENSO indices.
The full
cycle is 62.01371
years, and it is known to be a significant luni - solar
cycle in producing enhanced gravitational force on the Earth as a result of large
lunar parallaxes and close
lunar distances at perigee.
It could even go as low as 50 % FIRST the synchronized
lunar and planet
cycles will both be descending down to the driest part of their
cycles in 2019/20 (this only occurs once every 297
years in Australia) SECOND Antarctic sea ice extent has been trending up to now be at record high levels for the last 34
years.
The effect of the 18.6 -
year lunar nodal
cycle on regional sea - level rise estimates.
There's a 1973
year period when various known
lunar cycles — e.g. full moon, draconic
year — line up exactly with the tropical
year.
The orbital or Milankovitch
cycles are the best studied, and between them and the
Lunar nodal regression
cycle of 18.6
years lies the orbital gap, where no astronomical
cycle is known to affect climate.
Richard has taken hold of the
lunar nodal
cycle in developing weather predictions that
years ahead of time work apparently just as well as the normal forecasts made just days ahead.
The 9.1 -
year cycle is shown to be likely related to a decadal Soli /
Lunar tidal oscillation, while the 10 — 10.5, 20 — 21 and 60 — 62
year cycles are synchronous to solar and heliospheric planetary oscillations.
The 9.1
year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli /
Lunar tidal
cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three
cycles appear to be solar / planetary
cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.
The solar velocity 60
year cycle and the Jupiter / Saturn synodic harmonic
cycle along with
Lunar harmonics being the thrust of his proposals.
Lunar tidal 9.1
year cycle?
Even Keeling as well as Wunsch suggested ~ 1300
lunar tidal
cycles mixing cold arctic bottom water to describe the 10,000
year coolng trend.
The closest
cycle known so far is a
lunar cycle of 1,800
years [De Rop, 1971], which can not be reconciled with the 1,470 -
year pacing found in the Greenland data.