I found them (I think) here at Roger Williams University website: https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/8-4-hurricanes/ which seems on the whole to be quite a useful source of knowledge for a meteorology beginner/amateur like myself.
For me high school physics was a breeze for the most part (some or the math was a slight problem), while high school math was a nightmare. I remember looking at a model answer of applied math and understanding easily how the initial equations were created by resolving the diagram horizontally...
Most students of physics find the math easier than the concepts. I am the opposite. I find the math much harder than the concepts. Sometimes I wonder whether I might have mild math dyslexia, technically known as dyscalculia. I'm not terrible at maths, but it seems to be my weakest subject, out...
They say that haste makes waste. This is especially true with reading and studying.
It calls to mind getting less sleep than you need, in order to study more hours.
I thought 'atmospheric circulation' referred to circulation of air due to the Hadley cells, Ferrel cells, and/or polar cells, not air circulating around a zone of low pressure.
I wonder why the streamers of cloud are concave to the southwest when the westerlies are concave in the opposite direction in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Global_Circulation_-_en.svg ?
Your statement was useful. I hadn't noticed those streamers, or rather, hadn't noticed how long they are, nor that their length does suggest atmospheric circulation. I meant, 'That's very useful, could you tell me a bit more about that?'. I've looked at that photo so many times over my...
My post was a question. I thought it was clear that I am a beginner at meteorology. The source was simply to provide some context. I am indeed grateful for the interesting discussion.
I wonder what that vertical motion chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell#/media/File:Omega-500-july-era40-1979.png would look like if it were not ' July average ' but for a particular instant.
'500 hPa vertical velocity (Pa/S) in July from ERA-40 reanalysis, 1979-2001 average...
You are correct. My apologies. You can see the photo with the caption if you scroll down on this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell . I have edited the post accordingly. Thanks for pointing that out.
This photograph:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
is captioned :'Cloud formations in a famous image of Earth from Apollo 17 makes atmospheric circulation directly visible' but it is not directly visible or even visible at all to me. Can anyone see the...