"A strange thing happened in the stratosphere" Topic

"This disruption to the wind pattern – called the "quasi-biennial oscillation" – did not have any immediate impact on weather or climate as we experience it on Earth's surface. But it does raise interesting questions for the NASA scientists who observed it: If a pattern holds for six decades and then suddenly changes, what caused that to happen? Will it happen again? What effects might it have? "The quasi-biennial oscillation is the stratosphere's Old Faithful," said Paul Newman, Chief Scientist for Earth Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a new paper about the event published online in Geophysical Research Letters. "If Old Faithful stopped for a day, you'd begin to wonder about what was happening under the ground."…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Something strange in your stratosphere, who you gonna call?
Gas busters!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Reminds me of a University instructor who taught me that you learn more from an unanticipated result than an anticipated one. That's why hypotheses and theories are always tentative.