is this a map of prevailing pressure differentials due to standing waves in the jet stream (ripples in the bed)?? or???
@meetar artifacts of the analysis? I would think jet-related waves would be more N-S.
@sgillies right?? maybe some kind of transverse wave related to js-driven convection?
@meetar @sgillies I think you’re right because every climate scheme seems to agree that there’s a slight twist to the latitudinal gradient of climate over the Eastern US: http://www.cec.org/north-american-environmental-atlas/climate-zones-of-north-america/
@meetar @sgillies Yeah but long-term averages tho. Cf. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-simulations-question-gulf-stream-role-tempering-europes-winters/ (which I think slightly overstates the case – I gather this is still pretty debated).
@vruba “at last, we’ve succeeded in simulating the north atlantic — in a medical sense”
@meetar They did surgery on a current.
@vruba @sgillies okay that’s obviously it, but it’s still angled to ~align with the jet stream, which is professionally annoying.