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Science 13 October 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4057, pp. 156 - 157
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4057.156
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North Atlantic Ocean: Preliminary Description of Normal Modes

George W. Platzman 1

1 Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

The three lowest gravitational modes of free oscillation of the North Atlantic Ocean are estimated by numerical integration of Laplace's tidal equations. These modes have periods of approximately 21, 14, and 11 hours, and structures, respectively, of one, two, and three positive amphidromic systems. The phase distribution of the first mode resembles cotidal charts of the diurnal tide, and the period of the second mode is consistent with that inferred by Wunsch from tidal data in Bermuda and the Azores.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
World Ocean Tides Synthesized from Normal Modes.
G. W. PLATZMAN (1983)
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