Timeline for Can strong winds significantly lower ocean surface levels, or is it really the static pressure differences?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
9 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2020 at 8:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Commonmark migration
|
|
| Nov 15, 2017 at 1:02 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Sep 14, 2017 at 3:09 | answer | added | arkaia | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 1:50 | comment | added | arkaia | It has been proposed even for the Red Sea crossing: earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/2485/… | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 6:11 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 1 character in body; edited title
|
| Sep 10, 2017 at 9:16 | comment | added | uhoh | @Fred thanks. I'm after the physics behind the "dragging" and "sucking". I believe static pressure differences resulting from a hurricane can raise or lower the level of the ocean by a meter or more over distances of a 100 km or more. I am not sure if wind can do anything close to that or not. Both may happen, but one may be orders of magnitude larger than the other. | |
| Sep 10, 2017 at 8:57 | comment | added | Fred | As the quote states in para 3 .. "Hurricane Irma is so strong and its pressure is so low, it’s sucking water from its surroundings into the core of the storm". Also, from personal observation, I've seen wind move water around a salt lake. After heavy rain, the salt lake would occasionally have pools of water on it. Granted, it wasn't an ocean & the water was shallow (<2m deep), but how deep was the water on shore of the island? With a hurricane the strength of Irma I think both are occurring: the eye of the storm is dragging in water from its surrounds and the wind is also helping it move. | |
| Sep 10, 2017 at 3:42 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 30 characters in body
|
| Sep 10, 2017 at 3:17 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |