Questions tagged [meteorology]
The study of how the earth's atmosphere works, including weather forecasting. Use this tag for questions about the earth's weather. When asking questions specifically about the atmosphere, also include the [atmosphere] tag.
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Can wind turbines stabilize droughts?
A long good weather period is often combined with little wind. It seems that it needs some wind to end it. Thunderstorms have self-reinforcing dynamics. May droughts be ended by self-reinforcing ...
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Is it possible to create a man-made high pressure zone?
An article by Spencer Platt regarding Hurricane Sandy states: http://realtruth.org/articles/121027-001.html
“Normally, when hurricanes approach the East Coast from Sandy’s angle, they are pulled ...
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Solving a word problem on spatio-temporal change of temperature: Where did I go wrong?
As a sort of practice on solving word problems on atmospheric dynamics, I attempted to solve this problem that I found in page 22 of the book Mid-latitude Atmospheric Dynamics: A First Course by ...
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How to interpret GFS accumulated precipitation
I'm currently looking into some rainfall forecast data obtained from NCEI's Global Forecasting System (GFS) model. Since this is my first time making use of such a dataset, I'm a bit confused on how ...
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What are the best approaches for gap filling and spatial interpolation while analyzing climate trends (precipitation, temperature) of an area?
I have some precipitation and temperature data from 5 weather stations around my study area. The data for each stations differ in time. Now, how can I assimilate the data together to analyze the trend ...
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Why does cold air advection cause the wind to turn left (back) with height?
I've been trying to wrap my head around this for hours, but I'm still not getting anywhere. Most explanations I've found online are either overly technical or just confuse me more.
I would be very ...
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change in Sea levels in East Anglia UK c12th Century
Where can I find information on Medieval Sea Level changes in the UK - particularly for a geographical area known as 'The Wash' in East Anglia.
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How in the world did Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina amount to 5 to 10 inches in one day?
Western NC received 10 to 20 inches from Hurricane Helene as most of us know from September 25 to September 27 with some places even receiving as much as 30 inches of rain in that time period. Most ...
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Pressure levels and heights levels
I am a newbie, so bear with me.
I was looking into AI driven weather predictions model, and in particular Nvidia StormCast.
Looking at the ERA5 variables used to train the model I got confused. Almost ...
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What effect would a 14.6875 degree axial tilt have on the climate and weather patterns of Earth?
Average distance to the sun would remain the same, so would the year .... 365.25 days per year ... All other orbital particulars would not change, only the planets axial tilt, which would be reduced ...
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Why OLR is not a good proxy for midlatitude convection?
High cloud tops emit at cold temperatures and Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) is reduced to really low values as compared to clear skies, and this is a proxy for precipitation, since high cold ...
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Why high gradient height countours or sharp curvature trough are associated with stronger divergence?
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The chart below from https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/Miscellaneous/Divergence/divergence.html suggests that divergence increases with the gradient of the height contours and ...
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How are GHCNm quality controlled unadjusted mean values calculated?
I'm trying to understand, how qcu values from the Global Historical Climatology Network monthly (GHCNm) are calculated:
Is there a rule which stations use (TMAX + TMIN)/2 or TAVG?
How does rounding ...
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What is relationship between weather front and cyclone/anticyclone?
I read about weather front on Wiki.
As I understood, weather front is the cause of cyclone and anticyclone.
Is it right?
And what else is relationship between weather front and cyclone/anticyclone?
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Why does a dry season month have less than 60 millimeters of rainfall?
According to the Koppen climate classification system, if a month of a tropical climate has less than 60 mm (2.4 inches) of rain then it counts as a dry month. Whereas, a tropical (class A) ...
