Tropical Cyclone No Fly Zone: Newsletter Challenge (November 2015)

Thermohaline circulation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation

As oceans are not isolated but connected together why there are different levels of salinity in different parts of the oceans.

The same reason why CO2 is not equally distributed in the atmosphere.

And also the same reason why it is not equivalent hot or has the same pH value anywhere.

The main components of this behaviour are space and time and evaporation.

El Nino,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o

Why is the water hotter under the tap by your feet when you add to the bath water and cooler behind you in the tub? The water is connected around your body.

Some folks, myself included stir the water to mix it.

That's it. Although just like anywhere tropical and near the sea you get localised squalls.

The coordinates for Indonesia are not a point.....just saying.

The islands bust up the open water too so energy doesn't build up without periodic dissipation. There are a lot of clouds filled with rocks in that part of the world.

I have heard of this phenomenon. Also fish and frogs. Never really believed it, so can you say that you have seen this for yourself?

At one time people claimed to have seen frogs, pterodactyls and modern artifacts emerge from coal either in the mine or the home. Then as cameras became readily available these stories disappeared and the rise of UFO's took its place. Now it is immunisation and GMO affecting kids.

It would certainly cause me some consternation if you were to say that you had experienced stones in the sky! Clearly i am putting trust in a fellow CR4er and i am not sure i would do that for all on here.

Jim

Is there a clue in the name: "tropical cyclone"?

The West flowing component of the Global Conveyor Belt of ocean current near the surface which is warm passes through Indonesia and even though it reverses direction for a short time continues to flow through the islands while several other local currents converge and get turned different directions depending on the temperature of the season.

Australia's EAC - East Australian Current and the Kuroshio Current that hits the Philippines are instead interrupted and disperse into smaller currents traveling North and South. Any storm riding the currents has to confront landfall at a time when its ride gets stopped instead of a steady flow through The Indonesian Islands chain.

What's all this talk of ocean currents: the critical thing is the wind.

Indonesia lies in the intertropical convergence zone:-

otherwise known as the DOLDRUMS

Interconnected my friend. Where did you think the winds got their strength and momentum?

If the winds just conformed to speed of rotation of the earth at different latitudes and the heat from the sun's angle striking the planet then all the winds would be in the same direction for their region and season every day. No storms. No change from one year to the next.

Out at sea you can observe rain falling over land (Cumulus cloud cover) and on a very hot clear day evaporation pulling moisture from the sea to form those clouds.

Hurricane prediction paths are all based on the surface water temperature as the storm passes over currents. Your colored diagram would suggest that the wind always blows in the direction depicted. T'aint so. Ever hear of a Northeaster?

the geographical position beyond the equator