In 1810, in the Greenland Sea, William Scoresby Jr., the captain of Resolute, who was 21 years old, used an oceanographic instrument made from a ten-gallon wooden cask. It was built following Lord Joseph Banks's instructions. The cask was made of two-inch-thick fir planks, “as being a bad conductor of heat.”
Hi Rob, Walter Jehne a retired Australian soil scientist noted that as west Australian wheat belt expanded the rain bearing cloud belt moved with the edge of the forested area. He put this down in part to the precipitation nuclei produced by the forest. https://regenerate-earth.org/ A lot can be said about the adverse impacts of our land management practices not only on ground water but on atmospheric chemistry.
have been giving some thought to cumulonimbus cloud spires as energy release valves and their input into temperature release of water vapor latent heat above other cloud masses to be reflected back into space. The notion that If you can create a ladder of ice nucleation due to higher to lower nucleation particles you should be able to cause the biotic pump effect at higher and higher altitudes but if we destroy the lower rungs of the ladder can clouds climb the ladder? I would love to see if anyone has done a study in relation to vegetation types or more importantly nucleation types and cloud effects . studies in the past show a warm influx creating an upwelling but could cloud height be a property of ice nucleation? and how does this feed into heat radiation? especially above the low cumulous cloud mass.
Yes, I’ve learned much from Walter. The agency of plants releasing water vapor nucleating bacteria and fungi, and powering the biotic pump is beyond the scope of my piece on Scoresby’s fir cask. Walter, like Barry Commoner, crosses disciplines. The questions you ask involve botanists working with atmospheric scientists. There is little publishing and thus no funding for such closing the circle research.
Hi Rob, Walter Jehne a retired Australian soil scientist noted that as west Australian wheat belt expanded the rain bearing cloud belt moved with the edge of the forested area. He put this down in part to the precipitation nuclei produced by the forest. https://regenerate-earth.org/ A lot can be said about the adverse impacts of our land management practices not only on ground water but on atmospheric chemistry.
have been giving some thought to cumulonimbus cloud spires as energy release valves and their input into temperature release of water vapor latent heat above other cloud masses to be reflected back into space. The notion that If you can create a ladder of ice nucleation due to higher to lower nucleation particles you should be able to cause the biotic pump effect at higher and higher altitudes but if we destroy the lower rungs of the ladder can clouds climb the ladder? I would love to see if anyone has done a study in relation to vegetation types or more importantly nucleation types and cloud effects . studies in the past show a warm influx creating an upwelling but could cloud height be a property of ice nucleation? and how does this feed into heat radiation? especially above the low cumulous cloud mass.
Yes, I’ve learned much from Walter. The agency of plants releasing water vapor nucleating bacteria and fungi, and powering the biotic pump is beyond the scope of my piece on Scoresby’s fir cask. Walter, like Barry Commoner, crosses disciplines. The questions you ask involve botanists working with atmospheric scientists. There is little publishing and thus no funding for such closing the circle research.