Don't Panic Geocast

Episode 11 - "It was windy"

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This week we talk about another branch of earth science, meteorology. We discuss the upcoming severe weather season and Shannon’s close call with a tornadic storm. Also updates on past stories, feedback, and fun paper friday!

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

  • The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
  • The Brunt Väisälä frequency

    • Story Updates and Feedback

    • Nasa has decided to go with the boulder snatch technique for an asteroid mission launching in 2020
    • If you like space news and talk, checkout “The Orbital Mechanics” podcast.
    • A very early copy of William Smith’s map has been rediscovered at the geological society. You can view a digitized version of the map online.
    • More on the mysterious radio bursts
    • We got some feedback about levels (thanks Celena B.) and a problem with the show logo (thanks Ross K.). We hope we have corrected both. Please keep the feedback coming in!

      • Severe Weather

      • We encourge you to learn your way around and use the National Weather Service webpage.
      • Also checkout the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Storm Prediction Center.
      • For one of the most severe weather prone areas, Oklahoma, these three organizations are co-located in the National Weather Center
      • Communicating weather information, or an probabilistic information is actually really difficult.
      • Doing a hand analysis of data is still crucial to weather prediction. For example the analyst knows about isobar kinking.
      • Oklahoma Mesonet
      • Checkout the email “The Ticker" from the mesonet
      • Checkout if your local weather service office offers storm spotter training classes and get to know your branch meteorologist
      • John had a relevant blog post that talked about what an expert is and how important it is to know the fundamentals.
      • Have a disaster plan and know what to do during an emergency! This applies to field geology work just as much.

        • Fun Paper Friday

        This week is April fools, so we have a laugh with the Journal Nature. This week we learn about the coming back of dragons and climate change.

        Hamilton, A. J., May, R. M., & Waters, E. K. (2015). Zoology: Here be dragons. Nature, 1–2. doi:10.1038/520042a

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