On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 7:55:38 PM UTC-8, James McGinn wrote:
suricat says: March 1, 2016 at 2:21 am
Ray: Are you putting the 'cart before the horse' here or are you posing an alternative solution?
Jim: Yes, this is definitely an alternative solution/model. As I see it I am putting the horse in front of the cart. By way of isolating its contents from the friction of the atmosphere, powered by differential pressure, spanning thousands of miles, the jet streams facilitate and conserve the momentum of atmospheric flow. The energy thereof is what pulls the rest of the atmosphere along with storms being the proximate mechanism that distributes the low pressure energy that itself is a consequence of the Bernoulli effect in conjunction with the high wind speeds of jet streams. Accordingly, Hadley cells are delineated by jet streams and the internal flow of Hadley cells is pulled along by the storm producing tributaries of jet streams--and that even includes storms in the tropics and severe weather, like hurricanes.
Jim: Moisture is intrinsic to the process because of H2O's high surface tension which becomes maximized along wind shear boundaries. That is why storms are wet. Convection plays no role at all.
Ray: Let's get at least one thing straight! 'Surface tension' is only apparent in the 'liquid' phase of H2O!
Jim: I agree. And, as I'm sure you realized, there is no shortage of liquid (aerosol) H2O in the atmosphere. But the real tricky part is figuring out how its surface becomes maximized to produce a strong plasma that can subsequently be rolled into the tubes that effectuate the, above mentioned, isolation from the friction of the atmosphere. The solution that I came up with involves wind shear along moist/dry and flat, smooth boundaries like we find at the top of the troposphere.