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- From: cgilbert@igc.apc.org (Claire Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Rivers in the sky?
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:31:00 GMT
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- Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!cgilbert Jan 22 19:31:00 1993
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- Rivers in the sky?
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- AP carried a story today (_Times_ [San Mateo]) which says that
- scientists say there are half a dozen streams of vapor flowing
- through the LOWER atmosphere, carrying huge quantities of water
- toward the polar regions.
- It quotes R. Newell of MIT who says "'It's a lot of water for
- the atmosphere to moving in a concentrated stream.'" One "'river'"
- moves southeast from Brazil with about 6 million cubic feet of
- water every second.
- The rivers are up to "4,800 miles long and 480 miles wide."
- Newell discovered them while analyzing satellite date, as reported
- in Geophysical Research Letters_.
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- *** Scientists were surprised as the prevailing believe is that
- such moisture was spread rather smoothly through the atmosphere,
- according to the article. ***
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- The newly discovered rivers move moisture as believed, from
- warm equatorial regions to the cooler poles, but moving in narrow
- streams rather than spreading it out over a large area is what
- surprises Newell and others.
- Four months of data were analyzed. More analysis to follow.
- Joining R. Newell in research were N.E. Newell of Arlington,
- Mass., Y Zho of MIT, and C. Scott of NASA Goddard Space Flight
- Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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- Articles carried in _Blazing Tattles_ described "ribbons" of aerosols
- or particulate matter being transported without diffusing or spreading
- evenly throughout the atmosphere, and was heavily critized for not
- averaging out the particulate matter throughout the earth's entire
- atmosphere in order to determine concentration.
-
- Therefore, I find the above interesting. CWG
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