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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-75-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-75-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Research article
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09 Jan 2025
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2025

Chaotic oceanic excitation of low-frequency polar motion variability

Lara Börger, Michael Schindelegger, Mengnan Zhao, Rui M. Ponte, Anno Löcher, Bernd Uebbing, Jean-Marc Molines, and Thierry Penduff

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Flows in the ocean are driven either by atmospheric forces or by small-scale internal disturbances that are inherently chaotic. We use computer simulation results to show that these chaotic oceanic disturbances can attain spatial scales large enough to alter the motion of Earth's pole of rotation. Given their size and unpredictable nature, the chaotic signals are a source of uncertainty when interpreting observed year-to-year polar motion changes in terms of other processes in the Earth system.
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