[FRIAM] The Jet Stream

Tue Nov 19 20:13:24 EST 2024

Oh, I thought you were in Peru.  You know.  The way my New England friends
all think I live in Arizona.

He would take Ecuador in a heart beat. Speaking of heartbeats.  He spent
several weeks living with a family in Quito and loved it.

He has a line on some sort of post graduate biology program in Ecuador that
he is exploring.

I finally manage to attach an example of his post-Galapagos work.

 Nick

PS    Send my your snail address and I will have amazon send you a cc.  you
know, 1.99 plus shipping.  n

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> Hi Nick. Is Calvin Simonds your nom de plume? The book sounds great,
> and I'd get it in a heartbeat if it was available electronically
> (yeah, I'm one of *those* people LOL).
>
> I don't really have anything to say about Peru, I barely know Ecuador
> despite living here for 16 years, but if your grandson decides to
> visit Ecuador instead, I'd be happy to meet him. I attended quite a
> few FRIAM and Wedtech meetings back in the early 2000s, and on my only
> trip back to the states, in 2012, which is probably when we met. I now
> just lurk on FRIAM and occasionally post some snarky irrelevant
> comment to cover how above my head are most of the conversations. But
> I still enjoy the camaraderie of being around the complexity crowd.
> Frank was my first boss in Santa Fe, at Bios Group. I still miss Santa
> Fe, and am so sad that I'll never be able to shoot the breeze with
> Carl Tollander. He was a true gentleman and scholar.
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM Nicholas Thompson
> <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Calvin Simonds The WeatherWise Gardener.  Rodale Press,  1980 something.
> The title is misleading.  It is a general meteorology text with gardeners
> in mind.  One of a series I started which i called "understand-it-yourself"
> books. I think it holds up remarkably well. The effects of climate warming
> have altered some of the here rather than there, or the now, rather than in
> two weeks, or the Holy Shit, rather than the merely awful.  But the general
> principles are unchanged.   I am stupidly proud of it.    A lot more about
> the role of the jet stream has come clear since its publication, so I am
> hoping to correct that. If you have trouble finding a copy, I will send one
> to you.
> >
> > My grandson, about to graduate from Grinnell, an accomplished
> bio-photographer and artist (see attached), would like to get back to
> Peru;, which he visited briefly on his way back from a semester in Ecuador
> and the Galapagos.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Gary, I have only met you once, but for some reason it was really
> memorable.  Please stay in touch.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM Gary Schiltz <
> gary at naturesvisualarts.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Nick, I knew you were interested in weather, but didn’t know you
> had a book about it. Reference please?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM Nicholas Thompson <
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As a part of my plan to revise my weather book, I have been working on
> a chapter on the jet stream.  I am thinking of using the passage below as a
> kind of epigraph.  I am sending it along because it brings together two of
> the salient concerns of Our Glorious Leader.  Comments, fact checks, grumpy
> comments always welcome.
> >>>
> >>> During the winter of 1944-5, in the last desperate days of World War
> II, the Japanese military launched hundreds of incendiary balloons into the
> jet stream, hoping to ignite fires in American forests.  This ingenious
> scheme worked.  Many balloons made the 5,000 mile trip and some even
> started small fires. However, the plan ultimately failed. For a large fire
> to be kindled by one of these devices, the ground had to be had to be dry,
> the temperature high, the humidity  low, the water table depleted, all
> conditions that often occur during summer droughts.   Winter, however, is
> the wet season in the American west. The same jet stream that brought in
> the balloons, also brought in waves of pacific moisture that soaked the
> ground and covered the high mountains in deep banks of snow.
> >>>
> >>> This bit of military history illustrates the relationship between the
> jet stream and the weather we all experience, day by day.  The jet stream
> can initiate severe weather, can spark it, one might say, but only where
> conditions below have been primed.  Its seeds can only flourish where the
> ground has been prepared.
> >>>
> >>>
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
nthompson at clarku.edu
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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