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Causes of Tidal Variability

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Atmospheric tides are known to be variable at different time scale, from a few days to several years. There exists several causes to this variability and some of them are more particularly studied in this paper. Nevertheless several mechanisms can act simultaneously to generate tidal variations, some time rendering observations difficult to delineate.

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    David C. Fritts

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Vial, F. (1993). Causes of Tidal Variability. In: Thrane, E.V., Blix, T.A., Fritts, D.C. (eds) Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle Atmosphere. NATO ASI Series, vol 387. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1594-0_9

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