-------- Tom Van Baak writes: > Steve, > > > We can probably put a lot of the blame onto El Niño > > That sounds plausible but I'm suspicious of quick and simple explanations.
I dont think the primary El Niño phenomena involves enough mass transport to measurably change the angular momentum. It is mostly just a vertical inversion phenomena, which changes the evaporation from the sea surface. It has far ranging secondary effects, but those are mostly orthogonal to the rotation, so their effect is also attenuated. What I wonder is if anybody has done the angular rotation math on major forrest fires ? They convert a lot of trees from rigidly rotating surface mass to gasses, but I have no idea what the total incinerated mass might be... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
