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?
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@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).
@meetar They did surgery on a current.
@vruba “at last, we’ve succeeded in simulating the north atlantic — in a medical sense”