Didn’t see your post. RE my #16.
Apparently it is/was a thing.
Posted on 08/28/2023 4:28:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth's "third pole." A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the plateau feeds a vast network of rivers, including major waterways like the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow. These rivers, which together make up Asia's "water tower," provide water to nearly 40% of the world's population.
The Tibetan Plateau also plays a substantial role in the global climate system by affecting atmospheric circulation and driving weather patterns, such as the Asian summer monsoon, around the planet. And in turn, climate crucially influences the plateau. A projected warmer and wetter climate will affect the region's glaciers, snow cover, permafrost, runoff, and vegetation, affecting ecosystems locally and globally.
Jianping Huang and colleagues have reviewed the latest research investigating the Tibetan Plateau's role in and susceptibility to the changing climate. Although inquiry into the plateau's influence on climate dates to the 1880s, recent advances in observational data and numerical modeling are offering new insights.
The researchers divide their review into six thematic sections, covering observations of land-atmosphere interactions, climate system changes over the Tibetan Plateau, the plateau's effects on atmospheric species transport, thermal and dynamical forcing of the plateau, its modulation of the global climate, and potential future changes in the plateau's climate and forcings. For example, they discuss research demonstrating how the plateau drives surface pollutants into the upper troposphere during the Asian summer monsoon. They also outline how the plateau couples with the monsoon to influence global climate patterns in the summer, whereas in the winter, it drives the climate through its effects on planetary Rossby waves.
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The girl in your pic seems glued to that position for her hair trimming, I'm imagining her saying hurry up and trim my hair because my hands are going numb.
Apparently it is/was a thing.
Tell ya one thing for sure...you won't see me trying that. Don't have the legs for it. ;O)
I learned about polar vortex in my meteorology class in the 60’s. Just because journalists over use a “new to them” word shouldn’t alter the words relevancy.
How I Unleashed World War II
“Well done, you can say hello, but I can tell you now, never in a million years will you be able to say “Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz””.
It was a “thing” and it really stretches out the skin of the legs around where it’s holding the body.
Not yet...
It got me thinking how close Aconcagua was to the antipode of Everest.
Everest ~28 N, ~87 E
Aconcagua ~32 S, ~70 W
off by 23 deg longitude but only 4 deg latitude.
Thanks. Never saw the show, actually.
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