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Atmospheric gravity wave production for the solar eclipse of October 23, 1976

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CHIMONAS and Hines1 suggested that during a solar eclipse the cool shadow of the Moon moving with supersonic speed through the Earth's atmosphere should generate bow waves. Upper atmospheric disturbances, having quasi-periods of some 20 min, were recorded2,3 after the eclipse of March 7, 1970, and were regarded as possible verification of Chimonas and Hines's9 suggestion. Other observations4,5 following the eclipse of June 30, 1973, failed to detect such disturbances. The eclipse of October 23, 1976, will provide another opportunity in attempting to record eclipse-generated atmospheric disturbances.

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    TOM BEER

  2. School of Physics, South Australian Institute of Technology, Australia

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BEER, T., GOODWIN, G. & HOBSON, G. Atmospheric gravity wave production for the solar eclipse of October 23, 1976. Nature 264, 420–421 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/264420a0

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