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Why the day is 24 hours long: The history of Earth’s atmospheric thermal tide, composition, and mean temperature

The Sun drives a semidiurnal (12-hour) thermal tide in Earth’s atmosphere. Zahnle and Walker suggested that an atmospheric oscillation with period P(res) ≈ 10.5 hours resonated with the Solar driving ≈600 million years ago (Ma), when the length of day (lod) was ≈21 hours. They argued that the enhanc...

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Autores principales: Wu, Hanbo, Murray, Norman, Menou, Kristen, Lee, Christopher, Leconte, Jeremy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10321735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37406113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add2499