I’m trying to understand the formation and structure of shelf clouds. From watching timelapse footage it seems like cold air is flowing down and outward from behind the cloud from and pushing warm air upward. Is that correct? Are the banded structures formed by the warm air that’s being pushed upward and forward by the front? They look a bit like folded compressed fabric but also similar to lenticular clouds, just trying to figure out how to model them correctly. submitted by /u/circular_sawfish [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My textbook says that warm air is associated with high pressures or higher heights of pressure surfaces and cool air with lower. I'm confused because for the global circulation there is low pressure at the equator due to more solar heating. It makes sense that warm air is less dense and should have lower pressure. I get that technically the height of pressure surfaces of warm air are higher because it expands more. But why am I being taught that on a constant height or pressure chart lower pressures are associated with colder air? Also, if air flows from higher to lower pressure, why does low ..read more

I’m not educated on this topic. I noticed how similar the sub-island, Culebra, was to Tenerife. Desert island with desert vegetation type vibe. In PR, we get sand storms from the east. All the way from the Sahara. Can’t help but wonder how much biological matter/data the dust can carry. PR’s vegetion is a dark green free for all. Culebra = a tiny Tenerife. Desert veg, drier soil. Vieques (about an hour south by boat) resemble’s it’s mother. Thick, green, and aggressive. I’m willing to bet, these lifeforms are evolving at rates we never believed they were capable of. The part that worries me ..read more

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Currently going over my atmosphere notes and I found these but I can't remember what they're referring to exactly. They are some kind of winds but not sure which exactly. submitted by /u/Wholesome_Boye [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

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Hello everyone. I have a daily rainfall data spanning from 1970 to 2023. I want to compute the SPI in a 360-day timescale. Most of the examples and tutorials I've seen on the Internet use monthly data. I'm not sure how to use daily data for SPI. Would it affect the accuracy of the computation if I averaged the daily into monthly data first? Please enlighten a newbie here :( Thank you very much. submitted by /u/Opening-Outcome8208 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

What size Computer RAM, & Processor would I need for starting out has a meteroloigist freelancer? thanks [visit reddit] [comments ..read more