Effect of global mass conservation among geophysical fluids on the seasonal length of day variation
Effect of global mass conservation among geophysical fluids on the seasonal length of day variation
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地球物理流体的全球质量守恒对季节日长变化的影响
DOI:
10.1029/2011jb008788
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2012-02
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通讯作者:
Benjamin F Chao
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作者:
Haoming Yan;Benjamin F Chao
Geophysical fluids models for the atmosphere, ocean, and land hydrology usually do not properly enforce the conservation of mass either individually or collectively. Called the global mass balance (GMB) effect, these errors, if not corrected, will significantly affect the determination of the effect of geophysical fluids on the variation in the Earth's rotation rate or length of day (LOD). Here we analyze the seasonal budget of the excitation sources for LOD variation in comparison with corresponding observations. We find that (1) the combined mass‐induced excitations of LOD variation by geophysical fluids are brought to much better agreement with the observed upon accounting for the GMB effect; (2) the above can be further improved to almost perfect closure if the motion term of the atmospheric angular momentum (to be removed from the observed LOD variation in obtaining the mass‐induced LOD variation) is magnified by 7%, corroborating the finding of Chao and Yan (2010); and (3) the above quantities all agree remarkably well with the equivalent LOD variation determined via J2 variation from satellite laser ranging observations, indicating the usefulness of the latter as an independent measurement for mass transports in the geophysical fluids.
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