Arteries carry blood from our heart to the rest of the body. Veins carry blood from our organs back towards the heart. It’s a circulatory system that distributes nutrients, not using channels all the same size, but rather using channels that exhibit a fractal distribution. Arteries branch into smaller blood vessels, which in turn branch into even smaller blood vessels. Wilhelm Ripl has made reference to the water circulatory system as being like the blood stream.
Thanks Alpha, you made these words meaningful - Evapotranspiration from the land, atmospheric circulations that is the Hadley cell, Pineapple Express. Thank you for breaking down the research and making it more understandable. The question .. if we human change land use, will nature be less dramatic. My opinion is Yes. We can design with these words in mind.
Awesome as always! Has there been/is there a reliable tracking of the expression of this data over time? I suppose it could be calculated from past satellite data.
It would be really nice to visualize the exponent shifts from many small to increasingly greater massive rainfalls, etc.
Also curious if the total amount of water in the atmosphere stays relatively constant and it’s just the means of distribution which are changing or if this changes too.
Amazing ! All your posts offer another perspective, a new vue of the phenomena. Indeed, improving soil and tree management would surely help regulate water cycles.
Thoroughly enjoyed this article! Makes one think about the impacts of large scale clearcut harvesting and those impacts to our water cycles, in the boreal/ sub boreal where I live.
Like the Beatles said, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." Human body, Earth body, rain and blood, mind and atmosphere. Do we really know where we are? No, but we're getting closer. As Rilke discovered: "Denser and denser the pattern becomes."
Thanks Alpha, you made these words meaningful - Evapotranspiration from the land, atmospheric circulations that is the Hadley cell, Pineapple Express. Thank you for breaking down the research and making it more understandable. The question .. if we human change land use, will nature be less dramatic. My opinion is Yes. We can design with these words in mind.
Again and again Alpha Lo!
Great post that Nails it.
This is the exact issue we are trying to show here in Santiago de Chile.
How do these small cycle affect the bigger cycles. Fractales are a great way to think of this connectedness.
Awesome as always! Has there been/is there a reliable tracking of the expression of this data over time? I suppose it could be calculated from past satellite data.
It would be really nice to visualize the exponent shifts from many small to increasingly greater massive rainfalls, etc.
Also curious if the total amount of water in the atmosphere stays relatively constant and it’s just the means of distribution which are changing or if this changes too.
Thanks!
Wow I didn’t know where the term Pineapple Express had come from. This is great as usual Alpha, thank you!
Amazing ! All your posts offer another perspective, a new vue of the phenomena. Indeed, improving soil and tree management would surely help regulate water cycles.
Thoroughly enjoyed this article! Makes one think about the impacts of large scale clearcut harvesting and those impacts to our water cycles, in the boreal/ sub boreal where I live.
Like the Beatles said, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." Human body, Earth body, rain and blood, mind and atmosphere. Do we really know where we are? No, but we're getting closer. As Rilke discovered: "Denser and denser the pattern becomes."