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How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by realChem to c/science

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Not what I initially expected this article to be about, but I do love this kind of cross-cutting research that takes ideas from one field and applies them to a seemingly entirely different field. (Also makes me wish I'd been able to take a topology class at some point.)

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[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

“why the heck does it always travel east?”

I mean, come on. This one is pretty obvious.

The driver injecting energy in this system is heating from the Sun. The boundary on the surface between where the heating is happening and where it isn't is constantly moving West.

Other than that, there may be some interesting connection between quantum topology and Kelvin waves, but I doubt it is of practical use.

[–] loops 2 points 1 year ago

Cool shit, thanks for posting!

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An endorsement from Geoff Vallis? This might be interesting.

[–] realChem 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd not heard of him before reading this, is he a big name in climate dynamics research?

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say that he is the leading authority, but he is a well known researcher in atmospheric and ocean sciences. His book is the go to book for graduate studies in the subject, so he is well versed in the topic.