Re: eye-candy for weather nerds

Posted by Stephen Guerin on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/eye-candy-for-weather-nerds-tp7585796p7585797.html

Nick asks:

What does anybody else see? 

Karman vortex streets / Kelvin-Helmholtz instability?

And I can see Russia from my house.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Have a look at:

 

https://ia600505.us.archive.org/16/items/LargePosterSizedPhoto/ut2100___wvg.gif

 

What I see here is tropical storms as packets of moisture and energy that get flung out of the intertropical convergence zone into the temperate westerlies.  This is supposed to have something to do with the deformation of the polar vortex that then results in a compensatory movement of cold dry air southward into the US. 

 

What does anybody else see? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

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