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Oceanic tidal angular momentum (OTAM) is calculated for the four major tides of the Arctic Ocean, based on the tidal elevations and current velocities from a recent two-dimensional numerical hydrodynamic model. The presented OTAM tables are meant to be complementary to other modeling studies that use satellite altimetry (which cannot observe Arctic Ocean tides because of ice cover and limited satellite inclinations). Although the Arctic Ocean's influence on earth rotation is, as may be expected, relatively small, the rapid advancement of the subject now calls for such small contributions to be explicitly accounted for.
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Received: 22 January 1996; Accepted: 5 December 1996
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Ray, R., Chao, B., Kowalik, Z. et al. Angular momentum of Arctic Ocean tides. Journal of Geodesy 71, 344–350 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900050102
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900050102