Rotation, Climate and All That

[Glen Heward <G.Heward@greenwich.ac.uk>]

Some work has been done on the variation in the Earth's climate with
regard to rotation, "wobble", etc.  A few recent references include:

Rozelot, J.P. & Spaute, D., 1990.  Earth Rotation and Climatic
Periodicities.  Geophysical Monographs, Vol.59, p.127-131.

Berger, A. & Loutre, M.F., 1991.  Insolation values for the climate
of the last 10 million years.  Quaternary Science Reviews, 10(4),
p.297-317.

Jenkins, G.S., et al, 1993.  Precambrian climate; the effects of land
area and earth's rotation rate.  Journal of Geophysical Research,
98(D5, Atmospheres), p.8785-9791.

Bills, B.G., 1992.  Orbital, rotational and climatic interactions;
lessons from Earth and Mars.  lunar and Planetary Institute Technical
report 92-08, Part 1, p.1-4.