Articles | Volume 18, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15725-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15725-2018
Research article
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02 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 02 Nov 2018

Forcing mechanisms of the terdiurnal tide

Friederike Lilienthal, Christoph Jacobi, and Christoph Geißler

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The terdiurnal solar tide is an atmospheric wave, owing to the daily variation of solar heating with a period of 8 h. Here, we present model simulations of this tide and investigate the relative importance of possible forcing mechanisms because they are still under debate. These are, besides direct solar heating, nonlinear interactions between other tides and gravity wave–tide interactions. As a result, solar heating is most important and nonlinear effects partly counteract this forcing.
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