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Global Frictional Torque and Length of Day Dataset in Daily-Monthly-Yearly Timescale(1948-2015)


GONG He1HUANG Mei1
1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2018.05.15.V1

Published:Sep. 2018

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Key Words:

Frictional Torque,Length of Day,Globe,Progress in Geophysics

Abstract:

The Earth's rotation speed changes can characterize by length of day (LOD). Frictional torque is axial moment of earth which is produced by atmospheric friction. The Global Frictional Torque and Length of Day Dataset in Daily-Monthly-Yearly Timescale(1948-2015)is developed based on the data of the length of day (LOD) from IERS (https://www.iers.org/), the data of momentum flux from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/) and by the method of the formula (Weickmann and Sardeshmukh, 1994). The spatial resolution is T62 Gaussian grid with 192 x 94 pixels, the timescale is average of daily-monthly-yearly from 1948-2015. The dataset is archived in .xlsx data format with data size of 860 KB. The analysis paper based on the dataset was published at the Progress in Geophysics, Vol.31, No.4, 2016.

Foundation Item:

Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (2012CB957802)

Data Citation:

GONG He, HUANG Mei.Global Frictional Torque and Length of Day Dataset in Daily-Monthly-Yearly Timescale(1948-2015)[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2018.05.15.V1.

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ID Data Name Data Size Operation
1 GlobalFrictionalTorqueLengthDay_1948-2015.xlsx 860.42KB
Co-Sponsors

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Geographical Society of China

Parteners

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

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