Appendix B, The Ghost Plumes - 3
East Indian Ocean (Area B)This page is an appendix to The Ghost Plumes - 3 postPlume flow (m3 hr) formula:plume flow = plume height * flow coefficient * glacier widthPotential zone flow = plume height...
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West Indian Ocean (Area A)This page is an appendix to The Ghost Plumes - 3 postPlume flow (m3 hr) formula:plume flow = plume height * flow coefficient * glacier widthPotential zone flow = plume height...
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Fig. 1'G'=glacier, 'P'=plume, 'O'=oceanI. BackgroundIn the previous post of this series I mentioned that the remaining work to be done on this project was to calculate the plume flow rate (The Ghost...
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Rudy PootThe "W" had this Pootie Poot and now The Don has his Rudy Poot (see photo). The Despotic Minority is plodding along (How To Identify The Despotic Minority, 2, 3, 4, 5) unabashed by the...
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Fig. 1 WOD layersIn the first post of this series I mentioned the intellectual honesty of the team of researchers who made an unorthodox effort.There is nothing ipso facto wrong with an unorthodox...
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Fig. 1 WOD layers In recent posts I have been discussing a paper produced by researchers who felt that calculation of heat content in the ocean was substantially inadequate.Their solution was to use in...
View ArticleAn Updated World Ocean Database
WOD18 ApproachesI have now downloaded all of the latest update (end of September) of the World Ocean Database (WOD13), and am now "coming up for air."Preparing it for use will take a day or so, but...
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Once upon a time poets and songwriters received energy vibes that predicted the rise of The Shape Shifters of Bullshitistan:He zigs to the left and zags to the rightHe be ZZ Man
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Wooden ShipsI thought I would drop in and give an update on the status of building the new SQL database from the WORLD OCEAN DATABASE (WOD) datasets I recently downloaded. I am still preparing the new...
View ArticleIn Search Of Ocean Heat - 2
Fig. 1 WOD LayersI. BackgroundI have now placed the relevant data into my SQL server and am now excited to get back to work.Improvements are welcome at Dredd Blog (e.g. world class TEOS-10). Regular...
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Fig. XThe Whoever is missingDredd Blog advocates for the notion that the word "cremlin" should be a verb like similar words have been (The Queens of Stalingrad - 3).The word "cremlin" has already made...
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From there to here and here to thereMaking history happens to us all.It is inevitable, so we do it every day.Much of dealing with history is like painting an old barn, because cover-up is an acceptable...
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"Don't Worry Be Happy"I. Background In this series I tend to point out the problems with the warming science commentariat that reports on scientific issues without knowing the depths of those issues...
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Fig. 1 WOD LayersI. BackgroundToday's post takes a new look at how we can understand the thermodynamics of seawater.Specifically, this post is about CHANGE in the "heat content", that is, change in the...
View ArticlePatterns: Conservative Temperature & Potential Enthalpy
Fig. 1Pelagic DepthsIn the run-up to TEOS-10, which has been adopted by scientific bodies around the world as the new official standard, some key scientists pointed out why the new standard was...
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Fig. ZeroDespotic Trufiness GaloreI. BackgroundIn this series we have been focusing on the trinity that has brought down some 26 civilizations which came and went centuries prior to our current...
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