On Aug 17, 9:26 pm, "Alvia Gaskill" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It was discussed here recently that reducing or eliminating hurricanes would
> cause more winter storms and implied this might be a negative consequence of
> doing so. If true, this would show that some of the energy that the
> hurricanes would have taken poleward winds up there anyway in the form of
> other weather systems as the overall ocean atmosphere system attempts to
> redistribute tropical heat accumulated during the summer. If the same
> amount of heat energy is moved this way as by the hurricanes, then
> eliminating hurricanes would not have adverse consequences. In other words,
> would you rather be hit in the face with a baseball bat 6 times a year
> (landfalling hurricanes) or have marshmallows thrown at you every week from
> November through March (winter storms)? Further investigation of this would
> be needed to quantity the relative risks if hurricane mitigation is
> possible.
What about the moving of the heat along vertical axis?
Will hurricanes mix the ocean deeper and move the warm air higher
than usual winter storms?
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