Lunar Atmospheric Tide

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Lunar Atmospheric Tide

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An atmospheric tide due to the gravitational attraction of the moon. The only detectable components are the 12-lunar-hour or semidiurnal, as in the oceanic tides, and two others of very nearly the same period. The amplitude of this atmospheric tide is so small that it is detected only by careful statistical analysis of a long record, being about 0.06 millibar in the tropics and 0.02 millibar in the middle latitudes. See tide. [[/a>|/a> ]]

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This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use