Monday, November 07, 2005

As the Earth turns



Wm. at Stoat is explaining GCMs. With all the too and fro about butterflies and momentum, we somehow have missed the point about how momentum is transferred from the Earth to the atmosphere as it rotates. Inquiring minds wish to know how do GCMs handle that?

Update: Wm.'s answer is here

1 comment:

William M. Connolley said...

Ha! Well you should leave me a comment then... :-)