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Lunar Diurnal Atmospheric Tide

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Haurwitz and Chapman1 have recently described the discovery, analysis and distribution of the lunar semidiurnal air tide. There is, in addition to lunar semidiurnal excitation, a smaller lunar diurnal gravitational excitation. Although there must be some atmospheric response to this excitation, it has not yet been found in the data.

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LINDZEN, R. Lunar Diurnal Atmospheric Tide. Nature 215, 1260–1261 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151260a0

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