[LEAPSECS] This year's Y2K: 'Leap second' threatens to breakthe Internet -Brooks

[Brooks Harris]

New Research May Solve Puzzle in Sea Level's Rise
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/science/earth/new-research-may-solve-a-puzzle-in-sea-levels-rise.html

-Brooks

On 2015-01-15 06:57 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>> That reminds me, has anybody tried to do the math on climate change ?
>>
>> The main effect is (probably?) going to be the thermal expansion of
>> the worlds oceans.
>>
>> I did a quick back of the envelope calculation modeling the earth
>> as a sphere radius 6367 km, covered by a 4 km thick shell of water.
>>
>> Increasing the thickness of the water by one meter but retaining
>> its mass, I get a realtive change in angular momentum of 6e-11 which
>> is in the order of a millisecond per year.
> Below is a posting from last year; two plots are attached. It guesses long-term climate LOD variations are on the order of 200 ms (that's leap second every week territory).
>
> /tvb
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Van Baak" <tvb at LeapSecond.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Earth speeding up?
>
>> I'm not a geophysicist, but I too have noted what Tom reports.  I've attached
>> a plot that by coincidence I just made last week.
>>
>> The best hand-waiving arguments I've heard for these recent "decadal fluctuations"
>> is that the oblateness of the Earth is changing, possibly due to the ice caps changing.
>> Short-term fluctuations are much better understood, and they correlate very strongly
>> with the atmospheric angular momentum.
>>
>> Demetrios,
> Thanks for sharing that one. Now, do you dare join the club and predict the year when we hit 86400.000?
>
> For a longer-term view, attached are two plots from a 2010 paper "Long-Periodical Variations of Earth Rotation, Determined from Reconstructed Millennial-Scale Glacial Sea Level" by Chapanov & Gambis translating mean sea level to excess LOD.
>
> See also the 2003 Nature paper "Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle" by Siddall & Rohling.
>
> One of these papers is from "New challenges for reference systems and numerical standards in astronomy"
> http://syrte.obspm.fr/jsr/journees2010/pdf/
>
> Or I can email you copies. I have the raw data here somewhere too.
>
> /tvb
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