https://earth.nullschool.net/#curre...thographic=242.19,0.96,403/loc=-119.130,0.582 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! You do not see this often(If ever?) enjoy
Remind me, please. The stratosphere is which layer of the atmosphere? Is this what is happening high up or near the ground?
Seriously?!? Oh ok we are in the troposphere going up we have the tropopause and then stratosphere and then the stratopause and then the mesosphere and then the thermosphere and then the exosphere and then space(perhaps) none of whose boundaries are firm and different disciplines have different names --and levels we have the geosphere hydrosphere and biosphere and none of those boundaries are firm nothing is simple eg: the hadley cells are an interesting approximation of atmospheric/ meteorological activity within(?) our troposphere but the seeming chaos of our weather systems and climate don't fit comfortably within those confines anyway; the various patterns are interesting and observing them is fun enjoy
You guys do know there is a menu at the link, right? (Hamburger, lower left) OTH, if you are just having fun with sculptor, do carry on... https://ibb.co/ctnTQRX * I haven't tried to upload or link an image in years, but the editor functions for this seem broken - hence the link. Using simple, advanced, text, bb code, upload local, insert linked image, manual tags - all of the above. Does it work for other people?
Aha, thanks for this, very helpful. So now we can see what sculptor failed to tell us, that his picture was of winds at an altitude at which the ambient pressure is 1% of that at the surface. But there seems to be no clue as to what altitude that is, unless I'm misreading the menu. (Sculptor has a habit of omitting the relevant details that might make his posts mean something, and this seems to be no exception.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
It appears that the closest you can get is atmospheric pressure - under "height" which is in hPa (Hectopascals). I suspect that could be cross referenced to a table of some sort representing the "spheres" (stratosphere, etc.) Admittedly cumbersome... --------------------------------------------- Edited to add: Turns out wiki has just such a table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere Interestingly enough, wiki references sculptor's link in "external references" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere
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That's at about 110,000 feet (in a standard atmosphere.) https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/standard-atmosphere-d_604.html
Which is ~21miles, ~33km, so in the middle of the stratosphere. Not sure why that would be of great interest - and no explanation for the choice from sculptor of course - but there we are.
I don't get what y'all seeing. The map is in real time, so whatever he saw, it's not there now. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
We know. The question is why the air flow pattern at 110,000ft is thought by sculptor to be interesting. It's too high to be part of the patterns that determine the weather.
ok the image was stated to be at 10 hpa at 10 hpa above the equator the most likely height would be near the top of the stratosphere, or about 50 km above mean sea level (that can vary---day to day--week to week--month to month--year to year--decade to decade--century to century---etc...---) 50 km is a good approximation for now as I said enjoy .......................... I find this interesting/entertaining, perhaps, because one of my courses of study included meteorology at SIU) ---great fun--and, I got hooked, --this was back when we got our information from ground stations and balloons and then had to know enough fortran to make punch cards which were then fed into the punch card readers for the computer ---then come back in a day or 2 and get your weather prediction printout.
I only see a broken image, so this entire thread is moot to me. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes. Does it worry you when somebody admits to not knowing something? Thanks. So, are there any particular interesting features at the altitude you referred to in your opening post, which you'd like to discuss?
A)---no--- (My beloved spouse has remarked that, quite often, I "make obscure references thinking that everyone knows that to which I am referring, when, quite often, that ain't true") sigh OOPS What I found interesting; was that what you see as blue smudges were very tight bands running along the 25 degree north and 35 degree south parallels The pattern is usually a tad more messy like now https://earth.nullschool.net/#curre...hographic=-93.07,-3.07,468/loc=-91.457,41.441 the tight bands were what you might call "outliers" and outliers have always been of interest to me