Abstract
Two prominent interannual atmospheric fluctuations, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the troposphere-ocean system and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the equatorial stratosphere, account for most of the observed interannual length-of-day (LOD) variation from 1964 through 1987, with a relative contribution of about 2 to 1. Thus the atmosphere-LOD connection extends from seasonal and shorter periods to interannual periods up to about 10 years.
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StratosphereQuasi-biennial oscillationOscillation (cell signaling)TroposphereClimatologySouthern oscillationAtmosphere (unit)Atmospheric sciencesMadden–Julian oscillationEnvironmental scienceSeasonalityVariation (astronomy)El Niño Southern OscillationGeologyMeteorologyPhysicsChemistryAstrophysicsBiology
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- 243
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- 4893
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- 923-925
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- 124
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Benjamin F. Chao
(1989).
Length-of-Day Variations Caused by El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation.
Science
, 243
(4893)
, 923-925.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.243.4893.923
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- 10.1126/science.243.4893.923