Law of conservation momentum and weather

What do certain physical forces mean?

In meteorology, for instance, the conservation momentum requires, alter our weather systems in special ways.

Are troughs and ridges aligned perfectly straight up and down on the weather map? Usually not. We use a trough axis to show the center of the trough. It cuts across each of the curves at its lowest point.

What does it mean when the trough axis tilts to the left or right, or curves with respect to the nearest line of longitude and latitude?

On the grand scale, it means angular momentum is being transported northward or southward? In accordance with a well known law of conservation momentum around a spinning body remains constant.

This requires some further explanation.

Angular Momentum: large scale physics.

Let's start with a few definitions.

Momentum is the tendency for a moving body to stay moving
Then by conservation momentum remains constant, losing only to secondary forces like friction
angular momentum is the propensity for something such as a wheel to keep spinning. We can calculate either of these quantities from the object’s mass and speed
Conservation of Angular Momentum is the law of conservation momentum about rotating objects such as tornadoes follows.

Remember some of your grade-school science projects?

Take this thought exercise for instance. A figure skater pulls her leg inward during a steady spin and then speeds up.

Why? The speed multiplied by mass multiplied by distance of the mass from the center (axis of rotation) stays just about constant because of the conservation momentum demonstrates.

In this case, tightening up reduces that space occupied and the mass stays the same (unless she decides to grab something to eat during her stunt). Then her rate of spin has to increase to keep the product constant.

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Conservation energy law applied to the air.

Research has determined that westerly angular momentum automatically builds up to excess in the atmosphere near the equator. In order to maintain conservation momentum not required here migrates towards the poles, keeping it balanced. How?

Science fair project idea:

Suppose you're holding a fire hose and pointing it to the right (the east). If you tilt the nozzle a bit so that it points northeast while spraying full-blast, the momentum now travels upwards, as if towards the North Pole on our weather map. And if you point it downwards, it will dig a hole in the dirt below.

Asymmetry

For conservation momentum must travel towards the North Pole in the northern hemisphere and the trough or ridge, the hose, will have to tilt more often to the left than to the right.

The speed of the southwest upper winds will be stronger than those in any other direction when this happens, thereby shooting the momentum northward. A visual demonstration of these concepts would make a good science project idea.

This ridge, as seen by the axis, has no tilt, meaning it is straight up and down. Plus it has no curvature. There is no momentum transfer northward or southward in this case.

Other momentum transfer mechanisms exist. If a curved line can summarize the trough or ridge, then it acts like a lens, focussing or defocusing the winds while simultaneously redirecting them. We call this confluence or difluence respectively. The effect can be the same – keeping the conservation momentum displays by sending the high winds toward the pole and returning slower ones equator ward.

Tighter contour lines, which are more focussed, correspond to higher wind speeds and vice versa for curves that are more spread out. Consequently, looking at increasing or decreasing wind speed observed data on both sides of the ridge or trough can give the same kind of insight.

Southward anti-conservation momentum transport, which is less common, sometimes goes hand-in-hand with sudden changes in weather. One such case, a digging trough can lead to a sharp cold front with unusually stormy conditions and continued cold afterwards.

Also, if you think about it, it would make sense that a low-pressure area would form near the end of the trough, a low pressure line. This is where the stronger winds blow away from, leaving a partial vacuum behind.

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Bonus conservation momentum conundrum

Bent troughs can also mean northward conservation momentum transport near one part of the trough and southward anti-conservation momentum transport elsewhere at the same time. This often leads to a local build-up or deficiency in westward momentum that can then result in the creation or destruction of jet streams and fronts.

If a deficiency becomes strong enough, streams can decouple and one or more new centres of high and/or low pressure can form between them. This rock in the stream gets called a block, such as an Omega Block, where the flow around takes on the shape of the Greek letter Omega, like a country road on your mountain vacation looping around a large obstacle such as a lake.

When this happens, the inherent conservation momentum shows can make it take seemingly forever for things to get moving again and regions find themselves trapped in long periods of unusual weather. Then we hear things like…

Rainiest spring ever

I hope this cold snap lets up

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