Resonance theory

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resonance theory

Theory developed by Lord Kelvin in 1855 explaining the relatively large amplitude of the solar semidiurnal component of the atmospheric tides on the basis of the resonance of a hypothetical natural atmospheric oscillation of the same period.

(From WMO International Meteorological Vocabulary.)


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