June 12, 2007

1800 gmt

Antarctica Jet Stream

Different today. More reporting stations. The satellite images are better. The heat intrusion is resolving as noted with the 'yellow' area moving off the continent.

But the surface winds are more affected than yesterday, which makes sense. Air movement is fluid/gaseous and doesn't immediately reflect the dynamics at work at higher altitudes from moment to moment. A stark example of that would be a tornado. In observing a tornado, it can be noted to decend. The turbulence of the air is transmitted through a more 'inert.' Air movement or the lack there of is subject to 'inertia.' So, the air movement at 10,000 feet at one moment may not reach lower altitudes for minutes/hours/days depending on the dynamics of the 'inertia.'

Earth systems like to 'settle' into a rhythm. Earth has methods of inertia and it is in that inertia that biotic life finds 'nitches' to exist and thrive. Same in Antarctica. The biotic nature of the continent depends on it's rhythm, it's innate inertia. In this instance, Human Induced Global Warming has created 'issues' for the biotic life of Antarctica in the way of heat transfer, melting sea ice, ice shelves and ice terraces while the Blue Ice sublimes into vapor. That is what is occurring on a moment to moment basis in Antarctica as well as the Arctic Ocean.

This season in the Arctic Ocean the ice ocean is taking a huge hit. There is a chronic vortex/heat transfer just west of Hudson Bay. That is new this year. It has only one purpose and that is to transfer heat from very high tropospheric water vapor to the ocean, which in this case is frozen. Let me take a look at the temperature map because Vostok is back on line today as well.

TO NOTE:

The inertia of the Antarctica Vortex shows a 'settling BACK INTO' an undisturbed rotation at it's center. In time that will transmit to a 'settled' circulation of air throughout the vortex IF there are no more high altitude tropospheric intrusions. The uniqueness of Vostok, besides having a grossly reliable Russia character, is that at the highest levels of the Blue Ice, this reporting station rarely is affected by the Human Induced vortices that impact at a slightly lower altitude of about 9500 to 10,000 feet. Vostok is like a 'placebo' in Antarctica, unaffected by the dynamics of so much of what is occuring all over the continent. It is isolated from the ravages of the heat in 'some' ways, but, also unique in others. The Russians, the brilliant and brave Russians.