The Interaction Between Earths Rotation and Geophysical Processes

The Earth’s rotation instabilities are correlated with many characteristics of natural processes in all frequency ranges. The Earth’s rotation instabilities are a unique index of many processes in all spheres of the Earth. Various problems can be solved using the Earth’s rotation parameters. The reader will find some methods and can derive other ones from studying how some particular characteristics are related to the parameters of the Earth’s rotation given in the book.
This work fills an important gap in the geophysical literature as specialist level. It is the only up to date title providing the link between the Earth’s rotation and its atmo– and hydrosphere including the ice masses. But only with a full picture including rotation phenomena a sound understanding of the highly complicated and interlinked processes governing out ecosphere can be achieved, which is important especially for the protection of our climate.
Our ecosphere is governed by a highly complicated system of several processes. They involve the tides, the ice masses,  the atmosphere’s circulation schemes in the troposphere, stratospheric winds, and many more. They cannot be fully understood without considering their relationship with the Earth’s rotation and its irregularities. This book puts all these processes into context.
 

Spis treści:
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Motions of the Earth.
2.1 Earth’s Revolution.
2.2 Motion of the Earth’s Spin Axis in Space.
3. Polar Motion and Irregularities in the Earth’s Rotation Rate.
3.1 Motion of the Earth’s Poles.
3.2 Irregularities in the Earth’s Rotation Rate.
4. Estimation Theory of the Effect of Atmospheric Processes on the Earth’s Spin.
4.1 General  Differential  Equations of the Rotation.
4.2  Disturbed Motion of the Absolutely Solid Earth.
4.3 Disturbed Motion of the Elastic Earth.
4.4 Interpretation of Excitation Functions.
4.5 Harmonic Excitation Function and Motion of the Earth’s Poles.
4.6 Equation of Motion of the Earth’s Spin Axis in Space.
5. Tides and the Earth’s Rotation.
5.1 Tide–Generating Potential.
5.2 Expansion of Tide–Generating Potential.
5.3 Theory of Tidal Variations in the Earth’s Rotation Rate.
5.4 Precession and Nutations of the Earth’s Axis.
5.5 Introduction to the Theory of Atmospheric Tides.
6. The Air–Mass Seasonal Redistribution and the Earth’s Rotation.
6.1 Air–Mass Seasonal Redistribution.
6.2 Components of the Inertia Tensor of the Atmosphere.
6.3 Estimations of Instabilities in the Earth’s Rotation.
6.4 Discussion of Results.
7. Angular Momentum of Atmospheric Winds.
7.1 Functions of the Angular Momentum of the Atmosphere.
7.2 Climatic Data.
7.3 Axial Angular Momentum (Reanalysis Data).
7.4 Estimations of Seasonal Variations in the Earth’s Rotation.
7.5 Equatorial Angular Momentum of Atmospheric Winds.
7.6 Atmospheric Excitation of Nutations.
8. Nature of the Zonal Circulation of the Atmosphere.
8.1 Observational Data.
8.2 Translational–Rotational Motion of Geophysical Continua.
8.3 Genesis of the Zonal Circulation.
8.4 Nature of the Atmosphere Superrotation.
8.5 Theory of the Zonal Atmospheric Circulation.
8.6 Nature of the Subtropical Maxima of Atmospheric Pressure.
8.7 Mechanism of Seasonal Variation.
8.8 Conclusions.
9. Interannual Oscillations of the Earth’s–Ocean–Atmosphere System.
9.1 El Niño–Southern Oscillation.
9.2 Quasibiennial Oscillation of the Atmospheric Circulation.
9.3 Multiyear Waves.
9.4 Modern ENSO Models.
9.5 The Model of Nonlinear Excitation.
10. Mechanical Action of the Atmosphere on the Earth’ s Rotation.
10.1 Friction and Pressure Torques.
10.2 Mechanical Interaction of the Atmosphere.
10.3 Implementation of Calculations.
10.4 Mechanism of the Continental Drift on Decadal–Long Time Scale.
11. Decadal Fluctuations in Geophysical Processes.
11.1 Discussion on Conceivable Hypotheses.
11.2 Theory of Estimations of the Global Water Exchange Effect on the Earth’s Rotation.
11.3 Secular and Decadal Variations.
11.4 Effect of Ice Sheets.
  11.5 Effect of Climate Changes.
11.6 Effect of the Earth’s Core.
11.7 Summary.
12. Geodynamics and Weather Predictions.
12.1 Predictions of Hydrometeorological Characteristics.
12.2 Long–Period Variability in Tidal Oscillations and Atmospheric Processes.
12.3 Hydrodynamic Equations of Motion.
13. Conclusion.
Appendices.
Appendix A: Spherical Analysis.
Appendix B: The Figure of the Earth.
Appendix C.
Appendix D.
References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Nikolay S. Sidorenkov is head of the Global Atmospheric Circulation Lab of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center. Before assuming this post, he has held research positions at various Astronomical institutions. More than 180 papers give proof of his research experience. The author has studied the Earth’s rotation instabilities and related geophysical processes over about 45 years and has obtained a number of fundamental scientific results.

Okładka tylna:
The Earth’s rotation instabilities are correlated with many characteristics of natural processes in all frequency ranges. The Earth’s rotation instabilities are a unique index of many processes in all spheres of the Earth. Various problems can be solved using the Earth’s rotation parameters. The reader will find some methods and can derive other ones from studying how some particular charact eristics are related to the parameters of the Earth’s rotation given in the book.
This work fills an important gap in the geophysical literature as specialist level. It is the only up to date title providing the link between the Earth’s rotation and its atmo– and hydrosphere including the ice masses. But only with a full picture including rotation phenomena a sound understanding of the highly complicated and interlinked processes governing out ecosphere can be achieved, which is important especially for the protection of our climate.
Our ecosphere is governed by a highly complicated system of several processes. They involve the tides, the ice masses,  the atmosphere’s circulation schemes in the troposphere, stratospheric winds, and many more. They cannot be fully understood without considering their relationship with the Earth’s rotation and its irregularities. This book puts all these processes into context.