June 20, 2007
3:00 PM
Antarctica Wind Satellite image
Noted in the 'Jet Stream' satellite image below is air mass movement from the top Blue Ice out to the East Wind Drift, which is the ocean circulation immediately surrounding Antarctica. Literally, the air mass at the top of the Blue Ice is the heaviest because this is also the coldest region. Therefore, where there is no heat transfer taking place the coldest air sinks to lower latitudes of Antarctica causing higher surface winds.
The highest winds are over WAIS which is also the location of the heat transfer from the higher altitudes. The arrival of the heat transfer vortex transferred energy to the lower latitudes as it resolves that heat transfer which came all the way from the equator.
