Atmospheric tides are also produced through the gravitational effects of the Moon.

Atmospheric tides play an important role in interacting with both the lower and upper atmosphere.

What good could thinking and knowledge do him, standing so strong and bulky against the atmospheric tides?

The basic characteristics of the atmospheric tides are described by the classical tidal theory.

Therefore, understanding the atmospheric tides is essential in understanding the atmosphere as a whole.

Earth has atmospheric tides, too, but the ones on Earth produce little temperature difference in the lower atmosphere away from the ground.

Atmospheric tides can be measured as regular fluctuations in wind, temperature, density and pressure.

Ken believes that the only influence on our weather patters is the moon and associated atmospheric tides.

At ground level, atmospheric tides can be detected as regular but small oscillations in surface pressure with periods of 24 and 12 hours.

Atmospheric tides propagate in an atmosphere where density varies significantly with height.

Following this growth with height atmospheric tides have much larger amplitudes in the middle and upper atmosphere than they do at ground level.

Atmospheric tides are negligible from ground level and aviation altitudes, drowned by the much more important effects of weather.

"Now, what the rest of us (researchers) need to do is say 'is there any relationship between atmospheric tides and catastrophic slides?'" he said.

Atmospheric tides are global-scale periodic oscillations of the atmosphere.

Atmospheric tides dominate the dynamics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, essential to understanding the atmosphere as a whole.

Although atmospheric tides share much in common with ocean tides they have two key distinguishing features:

Atmospheric tides can be excited by:

Similarly, atmospheric tides arise from, for example, non-uniform solar heating associated with diurnal motion.

If there are terrestrial and atmospheric tides, it is possible to hope that 'lunar influences' will eventually be traced to perfectly understandable causes.

It has been learned that the atomic oxygen is strongly affected by planetary scale waves in the atmosphere, and by atmospheric tides.

Modeling and observations of atmospheric tides are needed in order to monitor and predict changes in the Earth's atmosphere (see ).

Lindzen's work on atmospheric tides led him to the study of planetary waves and the general circulation of atmospheres.

"For something that's precariously balanced and ready to go, atmospheric tides could trigger a slide," Schulz said of smaller, catastrophic slides.

Global oscillations of wind, temperature and pressure repeating each day or fraction of a day are called atmospheric tides.

In addition to oceanic tides, there are 'atmospheric tides' as well as 'earth tides'.