OCEANIC AND SOLID EARTH ANGULAR-MOMENTUM

We reconsider two hypotheses used in calculating the transfer of angul ar momentum between the oceans and the solid Earth: (1) The locked-oce an-hypothesis was already given up some time ago; here we provide a si mple manner of understanding the relative importance of the motion and matter term. (2) The isolation hypothesis implied the isolation of th e whole Earth in short timescales with regard to angular momentum exch ange, and consequently, the neglection of the exchange with the tide-g enerating body. It is shown that for present accuracy requirements thi s exchange has to be taken into account.