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Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1009-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-1009-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 8, issue 4
Research article
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14 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 14 Nov 2017

Atmospheric torques and Earth's rotation: what drove the millisecond-level length-of-day response to the 2015–2016 El Niño?

Sébastien B. Lambert, Steven L. Marcus, and Olivier de Viron

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We explain how the extreme 2015–2016 El Niño event lengthened the day by 0.8 ms. The 2015–2016 event was an El Niño event of a different type compared to previous extreme events; thus, we expected different mechanisms of coupling with the solid Earth. We showed that the atmospheric torque on the American topography, usually acting alone during classical El Niños, was, in 2015–2016, augmented by a friction torque over the Pacific Ocean and inherent to the different nature of this particular event.
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