Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell

Amazing stuff! Took only 200 years to confirm a theory first proposed by Simon Laplace!



The article only hints at what this could mean for global climate models.



"The team’s examination of surface pressure values from the new data set revealed dozens of the predicted normal wave modes, typically with periods between two and thirty-three hours that travel horizontally around the globe at speeds in excess of 1100 km/h."



Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World