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Simon F
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In 1959, rotating systems were still studied through "elastoid-inertial" oscillations.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/16/2/1520-0469_1959_016_0199_anooat_2_0_co_2.pdf
This expression was clever and profoundly meaningful because it exactly describes what physics lies behind the Coriolis-only mode. Each time you see the Coriolis force in physically rotating systems, it is a signal of an elastoid-inertial mode.
It happens that from the 60s, notably with 1968 Greenspan's influential book on rotating fluids, "elastoid-inertial" was changed for "inertial".
I thought that only recent scientists like Phillips (2000) discovered the real physics of the elastoid-inertial mode.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/81/2/1520-0477_2000_081_0299_aeotce_2_3_co_2.xml
but correct words were already there in the words of Bjerknes and Fultz before 1968.
I think it would be again clever and profoundly meaningful to go back to the origins and replace back "inertial" with "elastoid-inertial" about physics of the rotating systems.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/16/2/1520-0469_1959_016_0199_anooat_2_0_co_2.pdf
This expression was clever and profoundly meaningful because it exactly describes what physics lies behind the Coriolis-only mode. Each time you see the Coriolis force in physically rotating systems, it is a signal of an elastoid-inertial mode.
It happens that from the 60s, notably with 1968 Greenspan's influential book on rotating fluids, "elastoid-inertial" was changed for "inertial".
I thought that only recent scientists like Phillips (2000) discovered the real physics of the elastoid-inertial mode.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/81/2/1520-0477_2000_081_0299_aeotce_2_3_co_2.xml
but correct words were already there in the words of Bjerknes and Fultz before 1968.
I think it would be again clever and profoundly meaningful to go back to the origins and replace back "inertial" with "elastoid-inertial" about physics of the rotating systems.