Category Archives: Paleoclimatology

Tidal effects in polar regions

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Clive Best

The tidal force acting on the oceans generates tidal currents due to the tractional component parallel to the surface. This is because horizontally there is no net gravitational force acting to counteract motion. This tractional force reaches a maximum at … Continue reading →

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Lunar madness

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Clive Best

I had  hoped to calculate from the JPL ephemeris how the regular 100,000 and 400,000 cycle  in the eccentricity of the earth-moon orbit around the sun  would also effect the moon-earth orbital eccentricity. Such variations could dramatically change the tidal … Continue reading →

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The Moon’s eccentric orbit

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Clive Best

As far as I can tell no long term study of lunar eccentricity has been done, so  I decided to begin investigating this myself, even though I am a complete novice in astronomical calculations. The key resource for all planetary … Continue reading →

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