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Is there a conventional name for when wind speed increases as a result of a large descending air mass?
@JeopardyTempest Well I read that it is actually true physicall in the weather book I was referring to when it described a microburst which is why I'm so adamant about it. I think it makes sense because if the fluid particles are losing potential energy, they gaining kinetic energy, and the maximum kinetic energy they gain is just at ground level. Then, when they diffuse into a thinner layer, the conservation of momentum would say these lower-mass pockets of air travel faster with the same energy.
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If there's more water in the atmosphere due to global warming, how are there fewer mountain glaciers?
Actually I would like to see the equations if they're anywhere. If there is something that could quantify how the rate of temperature increase has a greater effect than the increased precipitation in the atmosphere.
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If there's more water in the atmosphere due to global warming, how are there fewer mountain glaciers?
Okay, but if it's simply a matter of snowfall, then why does snow always uncoincidentally happen to fall on the mountains? It has to have something to do with the actual height of the mountains themselves.
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If there's more water in the atmosphere due to global warming, how are there fewer mountain glaciers?
While your post is well thought, you keep talking about the ocean glaciers and deserts despite that the question is clearly about the ice on mountains.
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