Post by missouriboy on Dec 14, 2021 18:40:19 GMT
This diatribe is spouted under the influence of a new brand of coffee. As I watch the oceanic surface expressions of heat, as measured by anomalies, I note the seemingly increasing concentrations in the western parts of oceans in the northern hemisphere with tongues extending eastward around the big pond and the little pond. While this is the usual geographic pattern, the extremes appear to be increasing. The big pond has a cold displacement in its east and central margins seeming from infusions of cold water from the south (our current La Nina) ... while the little pond's northern extension is seemingly compressed further south by cold waters from the Arctic? Or lack of umpth in the gyre. Push or pull? The Big Pond's central northeastern tongue is the source of the atmospheric rivers rampaging our western coasts.
We observe that the satellite measures of heat in the troposphere spatially correspond to the ocean surface heat expressions (where their aggregation allow such comparisons). As Big Joe has aptly observed, these atmospheric heat expressions represent areas where heat is being shed skyward in the form of water vapor (evaporation), which, when condensed higher up, along it's clockwise rotation, releases heat for its final journey to space ... with the newly condensed water returning to Earth in great concentrated quantities ... at an increasing rate ... which we have been observing now for at least five years. Warmer ocean = warmer troposphere = more water vapor. Cooling oceans = cooler troposphere = more atmospheric water returning to the surface.
The oceans are largely heated by the sun ... and the atmosphere is largely heated by the oceans. The celestial thermometer, which had been on high for several solar cycles, has been reduced for the last 13+ years. The heat reservoir of the great hottub is cooling. The vertical gyres of the tropical Hadley cells are contracting ... and the tropical-polar pressure gradients are flattening. Thus, increasingly longitudinal atmospheric flows now reach at least 25 North latitude in places. Note the steep current southward flow into western North American and Mexico. Eastward flow ensures that this will continue across North America. Return flows have been reaching 65 North latitude in places. North-south flows have been cooling and wettening North Africa now for several years. Liquid discharges have been drowning central-western Europe, the sub-tropical Mediteranean and Middle East ... and China. These flows and discharges will continue as the atmosphere searches for a new equilibrium with the cooling oceans and contracting atmosphere.
Later: Found this regarding excess precipitation in Africa - South Sudan has been staring at a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as extreme floods hit the country for the third consecutive year.
We observe that the satellite measures of heat in the troposphere spatially correspond to the ocean surface heat expressions (where their aggregation allow such comparisons). As Big Joe has aptly observed, these atmospheric heat expressions represent areas where heat is being shed skyward in the form of water vapor (evaporation), which, when condensed higher up, along it's clockwise rotation, releases heat for its final journey to space ... with the newly condensed water returning to Earth in great concentrated quantities ... at an increasing rate ... which we have been observing now for at least five years. Warmer ocean = warmer troposphere = more water vapor. Cooling oceans = cooler troposphere = more atmospheric water returning to the surface.
The oceans are largely heated by the sun ... and the atmosphere is largely heated by the oceans. The celestial thermometer, which had been on high for several solar cycles, has been reduced for the last 13+ years. The heat reservoir of the great hottub is cooling. The vertical gyres of the tropical Hadley cells are contracting ... and the tropical-polar pressure gradients are flattening. Thus, increasingly longitudinal atmospheric flows now reach at least 25 North latitude in places. Note the steep current southward flow into western North American and Mexico. Eastward flow ensures that this will continue across North America. Return flows have been reaching 65 North latitude in places. North-south flows have been cooling and wettening North Africa now for several years. Liquid discharges have been drowning central-western Europe, the sub-tropical Mediteranean and Middle East ... and China. These flows and discharges will continue as the atmosphere searches for a new equilibrium with the cooling oceans and contracting atmosphere.
Later: Found this regarding excess precipitation in Africa - South Sudan has been staring at a catastrophic humanitarian crisis as extreme floods hit the country for the third consecutive year.
