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hurricane forecasting tutorial appendix A

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 20:50:00 GMT

FLUID DYNAMICS-DEFINITIONFluid dynamics is a bit more advanced, and requires a deeper understanding of atmospheric physics. Fluid dynamics studies the motions of liquid. Our atmosphere is best modeled as a fluid. Fluids exhibit different properties, and thus act differently, just as our atmosphere has a broad composition of various gases. Fluids are assumed to follow modeled as the continuum assumption which states fluids are continuous, not discreet. This is best g...
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hurricane forecasting tutorial

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:41:00 GMT

Update*-I've added part 9 & appendix A to this hurricane forecasting tutorial!!Welcome fellow bloggers to this hurricane forecasting tutorial!I will be using this site along with other tools(such as Jeff Haby & WU graphics) and my knowledge to put this together....All sources will be properly shown or implied(quotations)......Some sites offer techniques that are too complex for the layman to understand, and I will attempt to make it clearer....This is ONLY meant to ...
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hurricane forecasting tutorial, part 9

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:31:00 GMT

This last part of the hurricane forecasting tutorial will explore hurricanes in light of global warming. Here is a graph depicting global temperatures(source, Dr Roy Spencer, phD climatologist):A common statement by proponents of AGW, is that hurricanes will increase in frequency and intensity due to increasing temperatures on the earth. First, as a meteorological analysis, this statement is severely flawed and misleading. To say that rising global temperatures(a gl...
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Hurricane forecasting tutorial

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Welcome fellow bloggers to this hurricane forecasting tutorial!I will be using this site along with other tools(such as Jeff Haby & WU graphics) and my knowledge to put this together....All sources will be properly shown or implied(quotations)......Some sites offer techniques that are too complex for the layman to understand, and I will attempt to make it clearer....This is ONLY meant to be a basic tutorial in which I will try and make my discussions as clear as pos...
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Hurricane forecasting tutorial part 8

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:44:00 GMT

When forecasting hurricanes, there will sometimes be cases where cyclones are not truly "tropical" entities...I will explain how to distinguish between extratropical, subtropical, and tropical cyclones......When you hear "warm core" cyclone, this is talking about the center of the cyclone being relatively warmer than its surrounding environment and vice versa for "cold core".Extratropical cyclones form with cold cored structures. They maintain themselves by defined ...
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