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Growing Ice

While much attention is given to the summer loss of sea ice, the birth of new ice in the fall is also critical. Ice loss in the summer leaves oceans warmer and waves larger since wind can blow across longer open stretches. Those warmer waters and more dynamic waves affect how ice forms once autumn sets in. Higher waves mean that ice tends to form in “pancakes” like those seen here. Pancake ice is small — typically under 1 meter wide — and can only be observed from nearby, since they’re smaller than typical satellite resolution. Only once there’s enough pancake ice to dampen the waves will the pieces begin to cement together to form larger pieces that will form the basis of the year’s new ice. (Image credit: M. Smith; see also Eos)

alojapan.com/1233246/still-no- Still no snow on Japan’s Mount Fuji, breaking record #Materials #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #MountFuji #Nanotech #news #Physics #PhysicsNews #science #ScienceNews #technology #TechnologyNews #富士山 Mount Fuji is covered in snow for most of the year. Japan’s Mount Fuji remained snow-less as of Monday—the latest date that its majestic slopes have been bare since records began 130 years ago, the weather agency said. The volcano’s snowcap begin…

alojapan.com/1233006/snow-fore Snow forecast next week on Mt Fuji, at last #Materials #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #MountFuji #Nanotech #news #Physics #PhysicsNews #science #ScienceNews #technology #TechnologyNews #富士山 Japan’s Mount Fuji, snowless for the longest since records began 130 years ago, is expected to finally get its famous white cap back next week. Japan’s Mount Fuji, snowless for the longest since records began 130 years ago, is expected to finally get its famous…

People who profess an interest in physics tend to be disinterested in science. Not all, of course, but by and large. It is amazing. But here I will suggest some things they will fail to investigate.

The CHSH inequalities should not be violated significantly, according to quantum mechanics itself.

Thus the various experiments, including Aspect's, are bogus.

And quantum computer registers are actually akin to cycling digital counters and require lengthy time to randomize.

Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate science

#ClimateScience has correctly predicted many aspects of the #climate system and its response to increased atmospheric #CarbonDioxide concentrations. Recently, discrepancies between the real world and our expectations of regional climate changes have emerged, as have disruptive new computational approaches.

What the authors describe as the dominant paradigm or "standard approach" of climate science has been developed over the last 60 years by applying fundamental laws of #physics to the climate system under the assumption that small-scale processes are determined by statistical averages dependent on large scales (parameterization).

As with the evolution of other scientific fields, discrepancies have emerged in climate science with respect to how regional #ClimateChange is evolving. For example, the eastern Tropical #Pacific has cooled contrary to all model predictions. Neither was the increased frequency of blocking weather conditions over #Greenland in summer anticipated.

In particular, discrepancies are accumulating in the tropics where changes in the large-scale tropical circulation are known to grow out of instabilities that occur at small and intermediate scales. These scale-coupling mechanisms do not operate in the current generation of #ClimateModels.

"The challenge for conceptual work will be to identify which physics missing from the standard approach is most important for regional changes, and how to incorporate it," says Stevens.

phys.org/news/2025-03-regional

Phys.org · Regional climate signals pose new challenges for climate scienceBy Denise Müller-Dum