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Re: The Days Are Getting Longer

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: The Days Are Getting Longer
Date 2015-12-16 03:47 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Days Are Getting Longer
>> http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/the-days-are-getting-longer.html
> 
> 
>> Abstract
>>
>> In 2002, Munk defined an important enigma of 20th century global mean
>> sea-level (GMSL) rise that has yet to be resolved. First, he listed
>> three canonical observations related to Earth?s rotation [(i) the
>> slowing of Earth?s rotation rate over the last three millennia
>> inferred from ancient eclipse observations, and changes in the (ii)
>> amplitude and (iii) orientation of Earth?s rotation vector over the
>> last century estimated from geodetic and astronomic measurements] and
>> argued that they could all be fit by a model of ongoing glacial
>> isostatic adjustment (GIA) associated with the last ice age. Second,
>> he demonstrated that prevailing estimates of the 20th century GMSL
>> rise (~1.5 to 2.0 mm/year), after correction for the maximum signal
>> from ocean thermal expansion, implied mass flux from ice sheets and
>> glaciers at a level that would grossly misfit the residual
>> GIA-corrected observations of Earth?s rotation. We demonstrate that
>> the combination of lower estimates of the 20th century GMSL rise (up
>> to 1990) improved modeling of the GIA process and that the correction
>> of the eclipse record for a signal due to angular momentum exchange
>> between the fluid outer core and the mantle reconciles all three
>> Earth rotation observations. This resolution adds confidence to
>> recent estimates of individual contributions to 20th century
>> sea-level change and to projections of GMSL rise to the end of the
>> 21st century based on them.
>>
>> Citation
>>
>> Reconciling past changes in Earth?s rotation with 20th century global
>> sea-level rise: Resolving Munk?s enigma by Jerry X. Mitrovica,
>> Carling C. Hay, Eric Morrow, Robert E. Kopp, Mathieu Dumberry4,5 and
>> Sabine Stanley published in Science Advances, DOI:
>> 10.1126/sciadv.1500679
 

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The Days Are Getting Longer Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 20:37 -0600
  Re: The Days Are Getting Longer jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-16 03:47 +0000
  Re: The Days Are Getting Longer Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-12-16 07:47 -0500
  Re: The Days Are Getting Longer "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 10:14 -0800
    Re: The Days Are Getting Longer Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 12:15 -0600

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