Atmospheric Excitation of Time Variable Length-of-Day on Seasonal Scales

We use the method of wavelet transform to analyze the time series of the Earth's rotation rate of the EOP(IERS)C04.The result shows that the seasonal (annual and semiannual)variation of the length-of-day(LOD)has temporal vari- ability in its period length and amplitude.During 1965.0-2001.0,the periods of the semiannual and annual components varied mainly from 175-day to 190-day and from 360-day to 370-day,respectively;while their amplitudes varied by more than 0.2 ms and 0.1 ms,respectively.Analyzing the axial component of atmospheric angular mo- mentum(AAM)during this period,we have found that time-variations of period lengths and amplitudes also exist in the seasonal oscillations of the axial AAM and are in good consistency with those of the seasonal LOD change.The time variation of the axial AAM can explain largely the change of the LOD on seasonal scales.     

A possible contribution of the solar wind to annual fluctuation in the Length of Day

Applying Vondrák narrow-band filters on high precision Length of Day (LOD) measurements provided by space observation techniques as well as Atmosphere Angular Momentum (AAM) computed by U.S. National Meteorological Center (NMC), we show variation in amplitude of the annual components. From filter series of LOD and AAM, we find that annual variation of the LOD induced by AAM is about 20% higher than observed one. The aim of this work is to investigate how far the torque applied by the solar wind on the Earth's magnetosphere could contribute to explain this excess. The advocated dynamical mechanism could counterbalance annual discrepancies between AAM and LOD by an amount of 20%. Therefore, the torque produced by the solar wind on the earth might be considered as one of the most possible contributions to annual fluctuation in LOD.     

Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitations to LOD Change on Quasi-biennial Tune Scales

We use wavelet transform to study the time series of the Earth's rotation rate (length-of-day, LOD), the axial components of atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) and oceanic angular momentum (OAM) in the period 1962-2005, and discuss the quasi-biennial oscillations (QBO) of LOD change. The results show that the QBO of LOD change varies remarkably in amplitude and phase. It was weak before 1978, then became much stronger and reached maximum values during the strong El Nino events in around 1983 and 1997. Results from analyzing the axial AAM indicate that the QBO signals in axial AAM are extremely consistent with the QBOs of LOD change. During 1963-2003, the QBO variance in the axial AAM can explain about 99.0% of that of the LOD, in other words, all QBO signals of LOD change are almost excited by the axial AAM, while the weak QBO signals of the axial OAM are quite different from those of the LOD and the axial AAM in both time-dependent characteristics and magnitudes. The combined effects of the axial AAM and OAM can explain about 99.1% of the variance of QBO in LOD change during this period.     

Satellite observed long-term averaged seasonal and spatial ozone variations in the stratosphere

Nine years of Nimbus-7 SBUV ozone mixing ratio data (October 1978–September 1987) have been used to analyze the distributions of the long-term average annual and semiannual ozone oscillations in the lower, middle, and upper stratosphere over the region 65°S to 65°N. It is shown that the derived harmonics are consistent with the results of earlier investigations based on limited sets of data. Year-to-year changes of amplitudes of the annual and semiannual variations are generally small except in the tropical midstratosphere (due to the effect of El Chichon) and the southern subpolar upper stratosphere.

Analyses are also presented to show the vertical and seasonal distribution of the zonal ozone variations. It is shown that, for the long-term averaged data, wave 1 is larger during winter than summer and in winter larger in the Northern than Southern Hemisphere. The importance of photochemical and thermal/dynamic processes in modifying the time and zonal variations is discussed.     

Tensor anisotropy of cosmic rays

Long-termobservations of the muon intensity of galactic cosmic rays at the Nagoya (35°10′ N, 136°58′ E) and Yakutsk (62°01′ N, 129°43′ E) stations have revealed amplitude-phase annual and semiannual oscillations of the semidiurnal variation. These oscillations are attributable to the properties of the cosmic-ray anisotropy tensor that result from shielding by the interplanetary magnetic field and solar-wind shear flow. The mentioned tensor is also shown to have a north-south asymmetry.     

JMAGCM模拟的大气角动量函数Ⅰ.季节性分量(英文)

大气角动量(AAM) 变化和地球自转变化密切相关,它们可应用于全球环流模型的检验.根据日本气象厅全球环流模型的输出数据计算出AAM 函数,将AAM 函数的模拟值与它的观测值以及地球自转变化序列相比较,来检验该模型对大气角动量的模拟.限于篇幅,仅给出AAM 函数的季节性分量模拟的结果.对于半年项,轴向AAM 函数的气压项和风项的模拟值都偏高,赤道向AAM 函数的气压项和风项很小,因而未予考虑;对于周年项,轴向AAM函数气压项的模拟值偏低,而赤道向AAM 函数气压项的模拟值偏高,轴向AAM 函数的风项模拟得最好,而赤道向AAM 函数的风项模拟得较差.总之,高精度的天文观测的地球自转系列可以作为全球环流模型检验的一种重要参考依据.     

地球自转日长变化(LOD)和大气角动量(AAM)所对应的动力系统

利用一个多分维的分形地应的一维映射可以用子波变换反演出来,对地自转日长（ＬＯＤ）资料和大气角动量（ＡＡＭ）资料进行子波变换说明,在２０年尺度上、周年尺度和２－３２年尺度上,ＬＯＤ和ＡＡＭ的突变时间基本一致,所反演出的不同层次上分岔时间的分段映射动力系统也极其相似。     

50-day Oscillation of Length-of-day Change

Variations of Earth’s rotation rate (length-of-day, LOD) occur over a wide range of time scales from a few hours to the geological age. Studies showed that the 50-day fluctuation exists in LOD change. In the present paper, the authors use wavelet technique to study the 50-day oscillation in LOD series. Temporal variations of the oscillation are presented in this work. After analyzing the axial component of atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) and oceanic angular momentum (OAM), the 50-day periodic signal is also found in atmospheric and oceanic motion with remarkable time-variation. Meanwhile, the 50-day oscillation of the axial AAM is in good consistence with that of LOD change. This suggests that the 50-day oscillation of LOD change is mainly excited by the axial AAM. Possible origin of the oscillation for Earth system is discussed in the end of this paper.     

大气对地球自转季节性变化的贡献

采用１９７９－１９９５年期间新的大气角动量资料,研究了大气在季节性时间尺度上对日长变化和极移的贡献。结果表明,考虑了风和大气压的贡献后,大气在周年和半年时间尺度上对日长变化的贡献分别可达９５％和８８％。同时还给出了大气对极移激发的定量结果,其中,大气的周年尺度上对极移Ｘ分同的贡献为１６％,对Ｙ分量的贡献为４３％;在半年尺度上海洋的贡献,才能进上步解决地球自转激发的问题。     

大气角动量变化以及对地球自转季节变化的激发

利用日本气象局AMIPⅡ大气数值模式的输出结果，基于BP方法和SP方法计算了1979年至1996年大气角动量变化以及对地球自转季节变化激发的差异。利用最小二乘谐波拟合方法和气候平均图方法，分析了大气角动量的季节变化，并与同时期采用NCEP再分析资料和JMA客观分析资料计算的大气角动量进行比较。     

M_f和M_m波固体潮Love数k_2的确定——来自空间大地测量的结果

初步探讨用日长和卫星轨道摄动方法研究半月潮Mf 和月潮Mm 的Love数k2 .结果表明 ,日长方法给出k2 =0 .30 32 i0 .0 0 2 8(Mf) ,0 .30 2 6 i0 .0 0 1 2 (Mm) ,卫星轨道摄动方法为k2 =0 .30 83-i0 .0 1 0 0 (Mf) ,0 .30 1 4-i0 .0 0 1 0 (Mm) ,并与理论固体潮计算结果较为相符 .另外 ,上述结果更接近滞弹地球模型计算的结果 ,因此精确地测定长期潮Love数将对固体潮理论和地幔滞弹性提供重要的结束 .     

Hale Cyclicity of Solar Activity and Its Relation to Climate Variability

The periodicity of climatic processes along the Russian Arctic Ocean coast has been studied by analyzing the tree-ring chronologies for the regions close to the northern timberline. The wavelet analysis of annual series of conifer tree rings for the period 1458–1975 has revealed climatic oscillations with periods of 20–25 years. The amplitudes and periods of climatic oscillations in the region of Russian Arctic Ocean proved to exhibit appreciable changes. Especially strong climatic variations in comparison with the recent ones were found to occur during the Maunder minimum epoch when the period of oscillations increased from 22–23 years to 24–29 years, and oscillations with periods of 15 years appeared. After the Maunder minimum, the periods of oscillations and their amplitudes again decreased, and the 15–16-year maximum disappeared. Analysis of solar activity based on of radiocarbon (¹⁴C) concentration in annual tree rings has revealed a similar pattern in changes of periodicity before, during, and after the Maunder minimum. This suggests that quasi-bidecadal climatic oscillations and variations in solar activity can be connected with each other. A possible solar forcing of periodic climatic processes and its nonlinear influence on the atmosphere-ocean-continental system are discussed. The intense quasi-bidecadal climatic oscillations can be, in all probability, interpreted as resulting from amplification of a weak solar signal in the atmosphere-ocean system that has its own noises whose frequencies are close to the 22–23-year solar cycles.     

Velocity fields in the solar atmosphere

Observations of velocity fields in the solar atmosphere made with the Mount Wilson solar magnetograph are analyzed. These observations, which were made with very high velocity sensitivity, cover nearly 250 hours and were made with apertures of several sizes and at various parts of the solar disk, and in strong and weak magnetic fields. The amplitudes of the 300-sec oscillations are about 25% weaker in regions where the magnetic field is greater than 80 gauss than where the field is less than 10 gauss. No difference in the frequencies of the oscillations could be found between strong-field and field-free regions. It is suggested that the oscillations occur only where the field is absent and the lower amplitude in a strong field represents the fraction of the magnetograph aperture occupied by a magnetic field. The element sizes for the 300-sec oscillations are probably at least 5–10 arc seconds.Observations made simultaneously with two lines formed at different depths in the solar atmosphere showed small phase differences in the 5-min oscillations. The upper level showed shorter period oscillations when the lower level oscillations underwent phase changes.A short period oscillation is found superposed on the 300-sec oscillation. These SPOs come in bursts that last for a minute or two and have average amplitudes that fall in the range 0.05–0.10 km/sec peak to peak. All attempts to explain them as instrumental or seeing effects have failed. Their periods fall in the range 1–5 seconds. The horizontal scale of these oscillations is smaller than that of the 300-sec oscillations, and the SPOs are more nearly isotropic oscillations than are these around 300 seconds. They do not represent a high-frequency tail of the latter. These observations did not have a digitizing interval short enough to analyze the SPOs for power spectra, but it is clear from the tracings that they are not a nearly monochromatic oscillation as are the longer waves. The amplitudes of the SPOs in the solar atmosphere must be very large and they contribute greatly to the non-radiative energy flux. It is suggested that they represent a large microturbulence line-broadening effect.     

Fluctuations in tidal (24-, 12-h) characteristics and oscillations (8-h-5-d) in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (70–110 km): Saskatoon (52°N, 107°W), 1979–1981

An M.F. radar (2.2 MHz) operating at Saskatoon, Canada (52°N, 107°W) has been used to produce continuous wind data ( 80–110km) from September 1978–April 1981. The 24-, 12-h tidal oscillations reveal regular summer-winter transitions; in particular the semi-diurnal tide demonstrates strikingly regular and rapid equinoctial changes over the three years. The vernal and autumnal equinox changes are clearly different in morphology. Shorter term tidal fluctuations (2d τ 10d) are compared with mean winds and gravity wave amplitudes, as well as with satellite-derived stratospheric temperatures.

Spectral analysis of monthly data sets for 1980, from 90–105 km, reveal oscillations of the expected 8-, 12-, 24-h periods, but also of 10-, 16- and 2-, 5/6d. A modulation of the “2-d” wave by the 12-h wave is suggested as a possible cause of these surprisingly regular oscillations.     

On the regime of the Earth’s polar motion based on data for the period 1962–2007

The view of the Earth’s polar motion as a completely deterministic process has been called into question in the past decades, because no long-term prediction can be made. At the same time, no fundamental restrictions currently exist in the problem of a long-term prediction of the Earth’s rotation. Determining the boundaries of predictability is related to identifying the regime of the Earth’s polar motion. IERS data for the period 1962–2007 have been used to study the regime of the Earth’s polar motion. Analysis of the plots of polhodes reveals peculiarities in the variations of the pole’s coordinates X and Y in certain intervals along the time axis. The data in the interval from 2003 to 2006 have been analyzed in greatest detail: a model for the Chandler and annual oscillations has been constructed and relations between the parameters of these oscillations have been determined; the shift of the instantaneous pole on the phase plane and the Poincare plane has been investigated. As a result, we have found features inherent in chaotic motion (intermittency) and calculated the period (32 years) of the possible repetitions of such anomalies, as confirmed by our analysis of the plots of polhodes. The intervals where the peculiarities in the motion of the Earth’s instantaneous pole manifest themselves are compared with the intervals of the inflections on the plots of variations in the length of the day (LOD).     

同ENSO现象相关联的日长亚季节变化

本文利用小波分析方法研究了地球自转日长亚季节近50天和近120天周期变化的时频特征．结果表明,日长近120天周期变化及近50天周期变化的振幅具有明显的年际变化．ENSO事件发生之前,日长近50天周期变化加强,进入ENSO时期,逐渐减弱,成为ENSO产生的先兆之一,同时,日长近120天周期变化显著增强80年代,日长近50天周期变化明显发生了两次周期分岔分岔的一种趋势经历了一个周期延长的过程,收敛于ENSO时期增强的近120天周期变化,该过程不仅与ENSO现象相关联而且可能受到近10年波动的调制作用.同时证实了日长近120天周期变化及近50天周期变化的激发机制主要是同频段的大气环流变化所导致。     

On searching for observational manifestations of Alfvén waves in solar faculae

In an effort to detect torsional oscillations, we have studied the periodic half-width variations for several spectral lines in solar faculae. The duration of the series being analyzed was from 40 to 150 min. We have determined the dominant frequencies and amplitudes of the half-width oscillations and considered their phase relations to the intensity and line-of-sight velocity oscillations. Five-minute profile halfwidth oscillations with a peak-to-peak amplitude of ～10 m ?A are recorded with confidence in the upperphotospheric Si I 10 827 ?A line in faculae. The chromospheric He I 10 830 A? and Hα line profiles shows ～40–60 m ?A variations in two frequency bands, 2.5–4 and 1–1.9 mHz. No center-to-limb dependence that, according to the theory, must accompany the torsional oscillations has been revealed in the behavior of the oscillation amplitudes. According to present views, these variations cannot be caused by periodic temperature and magnetic field changes. Our observations do not allow us to explain these variations by the sausage mode action either, which should manifest itself at the double frequency.     

Nonradial stellar oscillations excited by turbulent convection

The resonant excitation of the large-scale nonradial oscillations of a star by turbulent convection is considered. In the case of an incompressible inhomogeneous liquid sphere and a spherical shell we have demonstrated the excitation of oscillations and have obtained the explicit analytic expressions for the oscillation amplitudes. The effect of uniform axial rotation of a star upon the oscillations has also been considered. The estimates of the r.m.s. velocities of the excited quadrupole oscillations based on solar parameters do not contradict the observations of the 160 min. solar oscillations. Results are briefly discussed and applications are also made to the case of nonradial oscillations of outer convection zones of white dwarfs, Jupiter and Saturn.     

地球自转极移近120天准周期变化的小波分析及其大气激发机制

本文利用小波变换这一新的频谱分析方法研究了地球自转极移近１２０天准周期变化的时频特征，证实了在极移序列中存在显著的近１２０天准周期振荡，得到了极移准周期变化的周期与振幅随时间变化的规律．以地球自转动力学为基础，在时域内分析了大气变化对自转极移季节内变化的激发．表明大气激发在本文所研究的频段内是极移短周期变化的主要激发源。并发现在极移近１２０天准周期振荡平静时期，发生ＥＬＮｉｎｏ事件，同时日长变化近１２０天准周期变化增强．     

Kink oscillations of asymmetric coronal loops

The free oscillations of coronal loops with a constant density and a variable magnetic field changing according to parabolic laws are investigated. Using our developed method, we derive the wave equations with constant coefficients that describe the kink oscillations of symmetric and asymmetric magnetic flux tubes. For such models, we obtain analytical expressions for the oscillation spectra and amplitudes as well as the magnitudes and directions of the displacements of the extrema of the fundamental and first modes relative to their values for homogeneous tubes. For the first mode of an asymmetric loop, we have determined the dependence of the coordinate displacement for the internal node on the ratios of the magnetic field strengths in its asymmetric parts and the ratio of the amplitudes at the extremum points.