SwissInfo: Researchers calculate incidence of sunlight in Switzerland. “Researchers in Switzerland have calculated the incidence of sunlight so precisely that even the shadow cast by every single tree is recorded in a new map of where the sun shines and where it doesn’t in the Alpine country.”

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the NHBS January clearance sale
- 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our #Atmosphere and Its #Weather by Christopher Dewdney, published by Bloomsbury Sigma.
- Landscapes of #Collectivity in the Life Sciences, a more heady edited volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.
- Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World by Eva Meijer, here in the English translation published by John Murray.

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #AtmosphericSciences #Climatology #Meteorology #Biology #Philosophy #Ethology #AnimalBehavior @bookstodon

Found the US #weather app I have been looking for, with heavy emphasis on the more technical, layers, models, raw radar from #NWS. This is the breadth of raw data I have been looking for.

Further, if you watch the youtube channel a partner of the developers runs (Ryan Hall), you will see how a person with actual #meteorology experience makes use of all those layers in real time in the app during dangerous weather. #Disaster

[ETA: clarity on the devs, see replies]

https://www.weatherwise.app/

Coriolis Effect ✍️

It explains why objects moving across a rotating world seem to curve from their straight path, even when no visible force pushes them sideways. Imagine throwing a ball straight across a spinning merry-go-round. To someone standing still outside, the ball travels in a straight line. But to someone riding the spinning platform, the ball appears to bend away from its path.

The same thing happens on Earth because our planet is constantly rotating beneath everything that moves. Air currents, ocean flows, and even long-range projectiles travel over a surface that is turning while they move. This creates the illusion of a sideways force, known as the Coriolis effect.

In the Northern Hemisphere, moving objects appear to bend to the right, while in the Southern Hemisphere they bend to the left. The effect grows stronger over larger distances and faster motions, but becomes almost unnoticeable in small, everyday movements.

Scientists use this effect to understand the spinning of hurricanes, the paths of trade winds, and the circulation of oceans. It reveals that motion is not always as simple as it seems when the ground beneath us is constantly in motion itself.

#CoriolisEffect #EarthScience #Physics #ScienceFacts #Geography #Meteorology #ClimateScience #Atmosphere #OceanCurrents #WeatherScience #Hurricanes #TradeWinds #PlanetEarth #EarthRotation #ScienceEducation #STEM #LearnScience #ScientificKnowledge #ScienceExplained #NatureOfScience #PhysicalGeography #FluidDynamics #EarthSystems #ScienceLovers #DidYouKnow #EducationalContent #KnowledgeSharing #CuriousMinds #ScienceCommunication #ExploreScience

Dear nerds, any idea what this instrument is or what it measures? It's out on the pier at a NOAA monitoring station on the eastern coast of Lake Michigan.

[EDIT: Thank you all you beautiful nerds, question is answered, see replies for more. It's a water level sensor that measures the distance between its platform and the surface of the water.]

#meteorology #weather #LakeMichigan #water #ecology #NOAA