The Sun drives a semidiurnal (12-hour) thermal tide in Earth's atmosphere. Zahnle and Walker suggested that an atmospheric oscillation with period ≈ 10.5 hours resonated with the Solar driving ≈600 million years ago (Ma), when the length of day (lod) was ≈21 hours. They argued that the enhanced torque balanced the Lunar tidal torque, fixing the lod. We explore this hypothesis using two different global circulation models (GCMs), finding = 11.4 and 11.5 hours today, in excellent agreement with a recent measurement. We quantify the relation between , mean surface temperature [Formula: see text], composition, and Solar luminosity. We use geologic data, a dynamical model, and a Monte Carlo sampler to find possible histories for the Earth-Moon system. In the most likely model, the lod was fixed at ≈19.5 hours between 2200 and 600 Ma ago, with sustained high [Formula: see text] and an increase in the angular momentum of the Earth-Moon system of ≈5%.
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