Monday, March 21, 2011

Seasonal Variation In Sea Level

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We treat sea level as if it were fixed and absolute. Places on land are described as being a certain number of meters above sea level. The n...

Tropical Soil Depletion

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Tropical soils across the world have a problem with nutrient depletion. Nutrients are removed from the soil without being replenished. There...

The Precipitation Duration Ratio

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We all know that water evaporates from the earth's surface and then condenses into tiny droplets around particles such as dust, which se...

The Weather Cycle

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I have come up with a concept regarding the weather and have become more and more convinced that it must be correct. Suppose we set up a sys...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Hidden Weather Factor

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As we know, predicting the weather is difficult because of it's great complexity. I believe that it is not that weather is so complicate...

The Collision Imbalance And Evaporation-Dissolution Balance

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I would like to introduce some new insight into the operation of the atmosphere that I have had. This is not about weather but about the bas...

The Condensation Line

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There is a great mystery concerning the sky above us that I have never seen referred to before but for which I believe I have a simple solut...

The Blue Sky Hypothesis

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One day, I realized that if there was no land on earth, if the surface was all ocean, the sky would not be blue. It is well-established that...

The Peaceful Pacific Ocean

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The posting below this one is titled "The Atlas Barrier". It is about a phenomenon that I noticed concerning the formation of barr...

The Atlas Barrier

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I think I have solved a mystery of the geography of the United States and it has opened up the possibility of gaining a greater understandin...

The Mystery Of The Wind

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If you go past any tall smokestacks daily, you will notice that the air is very rarely still. It is almost always moving in one direction or...

The Air Pressure Vector

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Weather forecasting more than a few days ahead is difficult. The reason is obvious, we do not yet understand all of the complex factors invo...

The Wind Pressure Formula

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In a posting on this blog, "The Air Pressure Vector", I pointed out that the fact that whitecaps form on waves when the wind speed...

The Wave Pressure Hypothesis

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I watched the waves on Lake Erie at Buffalo on one windy day. The wind was roughly from the west along the length of the lake and the waves ...

The Waves Of Life Hypothesis

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I have come to a startling conclusion that I have never heard of before. Any life on earth that is dependent on oxygen in the atmosphere is ...

New Insights Into Lightning

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ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND LIGHTNING The mechanisms behind lightning are still a mystery and I gave it some thought. Conventional wisdom is...

Geology And Weather

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The processes of weather are relatively simple yet it is so difficult to predict the weather even a a week in advance. The complexity of wea...

Biology

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The rest of this blog is about biology

The Real Alphabet

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I would like to introduce my theory of languages. I have arrived at an explanation of how languages operate that I cannot see anywhere else....

The Collective Radiation Exposure

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I saw an announcement of a celebrity look-alike contest, and an idea began to develop in my mind. Our appearance is determined primarily b...

Pterosaurs And Tropical Islands

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Here is one of those questions of the ages that does not appear to have been answered but if we give it some thought, the answer becomes cle...