Understanding How Things In The Air Move To The Up-Area

The up-area is warming faster than the rest of the large rock we are living on. This is not well understood. It is caused by many things happening near and far from the up-area. We need to better understand how things in the air move from further down into the up-area, and how these things are moved around inside the up-area. With “things” we mean the warmth of the air, the water in the air, and tiny rocks and water drops in the air. It is very important to know how many tiny rocks and water drops are in the air in the up-area, because they can throw back sun light or make the air white if the air can not hold the water anymore. This is important to understand why the up-area is warming faster.

In this work, we try to better figure out how much warmth and water in the air, and how many tiny rocks and water drops in the air move to the up-area and how they are moved around. We can see these things in the air at a few points in the up-area and use a move-with-parts computer picture to follow them back in time to see where they came from.

We focus on short time windows in which a lot of warm and wet air is moved to the up-area, because we know that almost 30% of all air water that is moved to the up-area in a year, is moved there during these short time windows (in the cold time of the year). Many of these warm and wet time windows happen during large air blocking which makes the mean air move direction change from right to up, bringing more warm, wet, and white air into the up-area. These warm and wet time windows also show more tiny rocks and water drops being move to the up-area.