So the SAL pretty much put the kibosh on the mid Atlantic hurricane formation this year. This brings up a question: what would happen if because of increasing desertification, the dust increased and persisted later into the year? No more Atlantic hurricanes? Maybe no hurricanes in the Gulf other than CAG spin-offs?
Addendum! I read that Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system despite being pretty far from solar energy input, so the strength of wind systems might not be totally dependent on solar energy inputs. Also I googled just now that a distant exo system planet, HD-189733b has sustained winds over 5,000 mph! That would would be like a Cat. 30 windspeed! It would be neat if ever so often you did an exo-planet weather issue. There are interesting things going on out there!
Hey Aaron! I have a question, completely off topic, that has been bugging me for several years. Kind of an exo-atmospheric one. On all the planets with atmospheres I suppose we see some kind of wind systems, but within the period where we have enjoyed the technology to more closely observe them, only Jupiter appears to have a semi-stable rotational 'storm' that has persisted for hundreds of years.
Question: could Earth's atmospheric dynamics ever produce a semi-stable low pressure system of high winds that would cohere for long periods of time- a kind of permanent hurricane???
I'm not an atmospheric expert, but I'm thinking what makes Jupiter unique is its size. Being smaller, Earth's atmospheric systems interact more with each other leading to more chaos. Meteorologists like to model the atmosphere as a fluid, and stability in fluid systems increases with size (largely due to inertia).
Also, the fact that the Earth has a thin atmosphere above the surface may place a key. It creates friction that doesn't exist on Jupiter, which has a rocky core but it's tiny and buried beneath liquid hydrogen.
So the SAL pretty much put the kibosh on the mid Atlantic hurricane formation this year. This brings up a question: what would happen if because of increasing desertification, the dust increased and persisted later into the year? No more Atlantic hurricanes? Maybe no hurricanes in the Gulf other than CAG spin-offs?
The literature review of this open access article goes into that a bit, with more of a focus on the past than the future.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adn6106
An amazing report! thank you for sharing your research..
Addendum! I read that Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system despite being pretty far from solar energy input, so the strength of wind systems might not be totally dependent on solar energy inputs. Also I googled just now that a distant exo system planet, HD-189733b has sustained winds over 5,000 mph! That would would be like a Cat. 30 windspeed! It would be neat if ever so often you did an exo-planet weather issue. There are interesting things going on out there!
Space weather is something I'm interested in. We will cover some of it eventually!
Hey Aaron! I have a question, completely off topic, that has been bugging me for several years. Kind of an exo-atmospheric one. On all the planets with atmospheres I suppose we see some kind of wind systems, but within the period where we have enjoyed the technology to more closely observe them, only Jupiter appears to have a semi-stable rotational 'storm' that has persisted for hundreds of years.
Question: could Earth's atmospheric dynamics ever produce a semi-stable low pressure system of high winds that would cohere for long periods of time- a kind of permanent hurricane???
I'm not an atmospheric expert, but I'm thinking what makes Jupiter unique is its size. Being smaller, Earth's atmospheric systems interact more with each other leading to more chaos. Meteorologists like to model the atmosphere as a fluid, and stability in fluid systems increases with size (largely due to inertia).
Also, the fact that the Earth has a thin atmosphere above the surface may place a key. It creates friction that doesn't exist on Jupiter, which has a rocky core but it's tiny and buried beneath liquid hydrogen.