Reality Check
Penultimate Amazing
I have not looked at Ben Davidson's tweets before. It certainly exposes his stupidity.
Outgoing longwave radiation
Nov 10: Chile/Peru have OLR anomalies and TEC/Ionospheric anomalies.
Nov 11: A small but strong OLR anomaly is seen over Central America.
Nov 13: OLR analysis in the AM. [but seems to never appear!]
Nov 18? OLR anomalies shifting east from Greece.
This seems to be the idiocy that OLR anomalies cause earthquakes. OLR anomalies are actually indicators of cloud coverage. Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)
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Outgoing longwave radiation
Ben Davidson tweeted:Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) is the energy radiating from the Earth as infrared radiation at low energy to Space.
OLR is electromagnetic radiation emitted from Earth and its atmosphere out to space in the form of thermal radiation.
Nov 10: Chile/Peru have OLR anomalies and TEC/Ionospheric anomalies.
Nov 11: A small but strong OLR anomaly is seen over Central America.
Nov 13: OLR analysis in the AM. [but seems to never appear!]
Nov 18? OLR anomalies shifting east from Greece.
This seems to be the idiocy that OLR anomalies cause earthquakes. OLR anomalies are actually indicators of cloud coverage. Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)
Those "OLR anomalies shifting east from Greece" are probably clouds drifting east from GreeceThe raw data are converted into a standardized anomaly index. Negative (Positive) OLR are indicative of enhanced (suppressed) convection and hence more (less) cloud coverage typical of El Niño (La Niña) episodes. More (Less) convective activity in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific implies higher (lower), colder (warmer) cloud tops, which emit much less (more) infrared radiation into space.
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