Lunar Air Tide in the Caribbean and Its Monthly Variation

Abstract

The lunar air tide and the solar 24-, 12-, 8-, and 6-hourly oscillations have been determined for Willemstad, N.W.I. and Trinidad, B.W.I. Monthly means of these oscillations have been computed for Puerto Rico.

The geographical distribution of the solar semidiurnal surface pressure oscillation

“…It is interesting to note that these large amplitudes are consistent with the observation of Frost [1960] [Haurwitz, 1956].) Unfortunately, there are no neighboring stations which can be compared with the present determination for Afobaka, but both the amplitude and phase given in Table I are Haurwitz and Cowley [1965, 1966, 1967, Reber [1967], Chapman [1969], Giwa [1972], and Hamilton [1980b] together with those presented in section 2 of the present paper. When there were two determinations for the same station, the one based on the longer record was chosen.…”