The Interaction Between Earth's Rotation and Geophysical Processes

Filling an important gap in the geophysical literature at specialist level, this monograph is the only up-to-date title to provide a link between the Earth's rotation and its atmo- and hydrosphere, including the ice masses.
Starting with the Earth's motions, the text goes on to look at irregularities and the effect of atmospheric processes on the Earth's spin. Tides and seasons occupy the following sections before a discussion of the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system and the mechanical action of the atmosphere on the Earth's rotation. The whole is rounded off by an index of abbreviations and appendices with sections on related physics for better readability, plus a comprehensive bibliography for further reading.
A must for geophysicists, oceanographers, glaciologists, climatologists and meteorologists alike.

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.

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.