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The atmospheric angular momentum (AAM) functions in terms of contribution to polar wobble and length of day change, are calculated from the output data of GSM9603 global circulation model (GCM) of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), from the reanalysis data of the National Centers for the Environmental Prediction (NCEP)/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and from the operational objective analysis data of JMA, respectively. The comparison shows that during the period from 1985 to 1995, the values of the pressure terms in the equatorial components of AAM functions calculated from three data sets agree with each other better along 90°E longitude than along Greenwich meridian direction. The axial component of relative AAM function estimated from GSM 9603 agrees well with those from the other two data sets in terms of seasonal variations with the moderate amplitudes, but not so well with the composite axial component of relative AAM functions estimated from 23 GCM models anticipating in the first phase of AMIP. In addition, its interannual variation from 1979 to 1996 shows the main characteristics of ENSO evolution, just as does the axial component of relative AAM function estimated from NCEP reanalysis data except for the period of anomalous ENSO from 1991 to 1993.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 49904002 and 40074004, the National Climbing Project of China under Grant No. 970231003, and LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Min, Z., Haoming, Y. & Yaozhong, Z. The investigation of atmospheric angular momentum as a contributor to polar wobble and length of day change with AMIP II GCM data. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 19, 287–296 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-002-0023-y
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