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Müller 2007
Müller, M. (2007). The free oscillations of the world ocean in the period range 8 to 165 hours including the full loading effect. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi: 10.1029/2006GL028870. issn: 0094-8276.

A new set of barotropic normal modes of the world ocean is computed with explicit consideration of dissipative terms and the full ocean loading and self-attraction effect (LSA). This set contains normal modes that did not appear in the spectra of previous studies. Furthermore, the expansion towards longer periods (165 hours) yields new global planetary modes. Altogether 169 normal modes are computed with periods longer than 7.7 hours. Of these, 72 are gravitational modes, 92 are topographically controlled vorticity modes, and 6 are planetary vorticity modes. The influence of the LSA is investigated for all three kinds of modes with respect to changes in the periods and in the spatial structure of the sea surface elevation and the horizontal mass transports. In particular for modes in the semi-diurnal and diurnal period range, the parameterization of the LSA is analyzed.

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, Surface waves and tides, Geodesy and Gravity, Earth rotation variations, Oceanography, Physical, Topographic/bathymetric interactions, Oceanography, Physical, Planetary waves
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Geophysical Research Letters
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