Movement of earth rotation and activities of atmosphere and ocean

The rotation of the earth, including the variation of the rotational rate and polar motion, represents the statement of the earth’s overall movement and interactions among the solid earth, atmosphere and ocean on a variety of space-time scales. They make the earth’s complex dynamical system under th...

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Published inChinese science bulletin Vol. 46; no. 11; pp. 881 - 887
Main Authors Zhou, Yonghong, Zheng, Dawei, Yu, Nanhua, Liao, Xinhao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Beijing Springer Nature B.V 01.06.2001
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences%National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences%United Center for Astrogeodynamics Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Subjects
Angular momentum
Atmosphere
Earth movements
Earth rotation
Tropical environments
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Summary:The rotation of the earth, including the variation of the rotational rate and polar motion, represents the statement of the earth’s overall movement and interactions among the solid earth, atmosphere and ocean on a variety of space-time scales. They make the earth’s complex dynamical system under the conservation of angular momentum. The application and development of recent space geodetic techniques greatly promote the researches on the interactions between the earth rotation and the activities of atmosphere and ocean. This review will mainly report the progress in researches on the earth rotation and the activities of atmosphere and ocean as well as the air-sea interaction in the tropics, and prospect the direction for future theoretical investigations.
ISSN:1001-6538
2095-9273
1861-9541
2095-9281
DOI:10.1007/BF02900458