Does the earths atmosphere experience tidal effects like the oceans do?

Question

As observed by cyclic atmospheric pressure changes in phase with the ocean tides.

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Answer 1

Yes. And lakes, land masses, nay number of thing. (The larger the object the greater the effect, the less viscous the object the greater the effect.)

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Answer 2

The phase might be slightly different than the ocean tides, because the tidal bulge of the oceans gets dragged "forward" a bit due to the rotation of the earth beneath them. I don't know if air experiences the same effect.

I do not know if tidal pressure drops are observable, but they certainly will be using statistical techniques where you look at pressure measurements averaged over many measurements at the same point in the tidal cycle.

These fluctuations would be way smaller than the thermal/weather driven fluctations we experience.

Answer 3

Yes.

As does the land mass. The land actually rises up and down tidally.

The reasons that ocean tides are so noticeable are:

1. water flows in response to the tide raising forces
2. the ebbing and flowing water resonates in some ocean basins to create very large tides (this is like gently sloshing water around in a bucket - hit the right frequency and the waves will build up and up to slosh out of the bucket).

Answer 4

Yes. But not as greatly as the tidal effects.