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Atmospheric Tides

Thermal and Gravitational

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  • © 1970

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Authors:
  1. Sydney Chapman

    1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
      Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, College, Alaska, USA

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  2. Richard S. Lindzen

    1. Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Everyone is familiar with the daily changes of air temperature. The barometer shows that these are accompanied by daily changes of mass distribution of the atmosphere, and consequently with daily motions of the air. In the tropics the daily pressure change is evident on the barographs; in temperate and higher latitudes it is not noticeable, being overwhelmed by cyclonic and anticyclonic pressure variations. There too, however, the daily change can be found by averaging the variations over many days; and the same process suffices to show that there is a still smaller lunar tide in the atmosphere, first sought by Laplace. Throughout nearly two centuries these 'tides', thermal and gravitational, have been extensively discussed in the periodical literature of science, although they are very minor phenomena at ground level. This monograph summarizes our present knowledge and theoretical under­ standing of them. It is more than twenty years since the appearance of the one previous monograph on them - by Wilkes - and nearly a decade since they were last comprehensively reviewed, by Siebert. The intervening years have seen many additions to our know­ ledge of the state of the upper atmosphere, and of the tides there, on the basis of measurements by radio, rockets and satellites.

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introductory and Historical

    • Sydney Chapman, Richard S. Lindzen
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Solar Daily Atmospheric Oscillations as Revealed by Meteorological Data

    • Sydney Chapman, Richard S. Lindzen
    Pages 24-65

  4. The Lunar Atmospheric Tide as Revealed by Meteorological Data

    • Sydney Chapman, Richard S. Lindzen
    Pages 66-105

  5. Quantitative Theory of Atmospheric Tides and Thermal Tides

    • Sydney Chapman, Richard S. Lindzen
    Pages 106-174

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 175-200
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Authors and Affiliations

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

    Sydney Chapman

  • Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, College, Alaska, USA

    Sydney Chapman

  • Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Richard S. Lindzen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Atmospheric Tides

  • Book Subtitle: Thermal and Gravitational

  • Authors: Sydney Chapman, Richard S. Lindzen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3399-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1970

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0113-8Due: 31 July 1969

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3401-2Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3399-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 200

  • Topics: Mineralogy

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