Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / January 2008

In the theory of Grenhouse gases, it is outlined that CO2 has
absorption bands in the infrared, most importantly at 15um. Therefore,
CO2 is 'reactive' to infrared energy at this wavelength. It is stated
that CO2 absorbs and emits at this wavelength in equivelency, due to

Someone tell me how a warm pool in the south Pacific can affect the
north Indian without the ability to cross the equator.
We are talking about a temperature difference here of something less
than a degree Centigrade:

The TV news says it is going to be 19 in Georgia Friday morning.
Yahoo says it is going to be 19 Thursday.
I get the feeling the TV news talking about Friday morning and Yahoo
is showing the same information is Thursday night.

Is atmospheric dynamics related to atmospheric physics or to
meteorology?

In the Jan. 2008 issue of Statistica Sinica, there will be a series of
discussions on Fygenson's paper:  "Modeling and predicting
extrapolated probabilities with outlooks" and a short editorial by Dr.
Xuming He. Due to several requests for hard copies of the Jan issue,

I can't tell for sure yet.
David Christainsen

In a nutshell -
Jet Stream
http://www.weather.com/maps/activity/aviation/sundayusjetstream_large.html
David Christainsen - meteorologist

1) Is there a correlation between cloud ceiling and barometric
pressure?
2) Does any one know of any papers that discuss determining cloud
altitude from photographic images?

Is anyone currently integrating popular music into the Earth Science
Curriculum? I am interested in using songs that are popluar to the students
now that have weather or science terminology in them. Then we are going to
let the students listen to the song, see the lyrics printed on ...

CO2 or Sunspots: Statistical Correlation Chooses
Statistical correlation is a powerful technique with
very many uses.  It produces "R squared" a measure of
whether two series of measures trend together.

I seem to remember someone asking for a site that shows the tracks of
tropical or sub-tropical storms.
Not sure which group so here goes with even more cross posting than my
usual:

Would any SGMer critique the consensus forecast?
David Christainsen - meteorologist

Here's a great graphic of global yearly mean temperatures,
their error bounds, and their chronological decades from the
Met Office:  Please see:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/images/pr20071213.gif

2007 WAS SECOND WARMEST ON LAND IN THE 128-YEAR RECORD!
Lately, fossil fools fondly repeat a lie about global warming
slowing down.  "Global warming ended in 1998," they say.  The
truth is published here every month in this section of these

Do you love cold weather too?
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