Marshall Shepherd
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354 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And so there's all kinds of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.
And so it is very much connected.
You know, just like an eddy or whirl in the Mississippi River upstream in Minneapolis, Minnesota, somewhere, that eddy and the temperature of the water has downstream effects all the way to St.
Louis.
And so that's how our atmosphere behaves.
And that's what's so fascinating about it.
And candidly,
That's what gives it some degree of predictability because fluid dynamics, they are governed by physics equations.
There's certain Navier-Stokes equations, thermodynamic equations, continuity equations.
So that's how we do weather prediction.
We actually try to predict using complex calculus and equations how that fluid changes one day out, two days out, seven days out, ten days out.
We predict that fluid flow.
And so it's very much
connected in the most subtle of ripples, whether it's in El Nino or a mountain range or a massive amount of dust blowing off the Sahel region of Africa, those subtle ripples can change those weather patterns and those forecasts.
Oh, it is.
And and that's the beauty of satellites, which is where I cut my teeth as a young scientist at NASA.
We don't just use satellites, but we certainly rely heavily when we're monitoring the global ocean on satellites.
Because if you think about our planet, the vast majority of our planet is covered in ocean.
The challenge with that is we can't put neat instruments out over much of that because it's ocean.
And then there are remote areas too, mountains, deserts, and so forth.
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