A model calculation has shown how the speed of the Earth's rotation differs between the northern summer and the northern winter because of the seasonal variation of the force between the atmosphere and the spinning Earth.
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Maddox, J. Weather and the Earth's rotation. Nature 346, 605 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/346605a0
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