How clouds influence climate change (with
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3 жыл бұрынLearn the science of clouds and the programming of this visualisation with Brilliant: www.brilliant.org/SimonClark
Featuring the wonderful @ClimateAdam - go check out their channel!
Their video: • How Water & Clouds boo...
This video talks about how clouds interact with climate - what happens when we warm the planet, and will clouds act as a positive or a negative feedback? It turns out that water in the Earth's atmosphere has a complex relationship with the Earth's temperature, both in clouds and as water vapour. To visualise this interaction, I made a 3D visualisation in Blender, reading in climate model output via Python.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (2017): WCRP CMIP5: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) GFDL-ESM2M model output for the abrupt4xCO2 experiment. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 28/3/2021. catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6d0...
Global warming attribution to water vapour/clouds/CO2 from agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
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Title: Visualizing the Future of Clouds on Earth (with @ClimateAdam)
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@MedlifeCrisis 3 жыл бұрын
What would happen if all clouds fell to earth? Model that doctor atmosphere man
@DuncanPerryOfficial 2 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed! Clouds have a tendency to rain and cause a cooling effect 👍🏻
@williamchamberlain2263 2 жыл бұрын
Estimating from getting soaked a few times: raincloud might be 25mm of water, a thunderhead might be 3 times that. So up to 1 glass of water's thickness falling across hundreds of acres. Wouldn't hurt much, but it'd flatten crops, make the night colder (no clouds to hold in heat), and floooooood.
@arnehofoss9109 2 жыл бұрын
@@DuncanPerryOfficial Not to talk about snow.
@DuncanPerryOfficial 2 жыл бұрын
@@arnehofoss9109 Yes in turn causing a greater albedo effect.
@irfan8702 3 жыл бұрын
Kudos for the amazing blender-python animation. A very helpful and amazing visual aid. Yeah can't imagine the amount of time you spend on it. Just wanted to say that its worth it (since it helps a lot of people visualize your points)
@medic_gabe2522 3 жыл бұрын
Commenting so the youtube algorithm knows I want more of this stuff
@christnagar2012batch 3 жыл бұрын
As a CFD person, I should say that making cool animations of any flow is an art! And you are mastering it!
@MsWarminded 3 жыл бұрын
Currently watching your earlier videos when you were in school. It has definitely helped me with getting through my PhD program. Thanks
@PapaFlammy69 3 жыл бұрын
*_I'm early af let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo_*
@francescopinton1041 3 жыл бұрын
daYoung More stopppp
@NavinKhunte 3 жыл бұрын
Haha you are sirr!!😅😂
@lilcrowlet1802 3 жыл бұрын
welcome here papa
@tabishumaransari 3 жыл бұрын
I hit like button the moment you revealed that you had done all the coding for the visualization yourself.
@creature_skin 3 жыл бұрын
That last monologue had some next David Attenborough energy and I'm here for it
@dgblitwin 3 жыл бұрын
Simon that visualization is STUNNING. Kudos.
@dtghanvey 3 жыл бұрын
Really seeing how powerful the climate model is now - looking forward to seeing it used for other projects!
@andrewneild2074 3 жыл бұрын
I saw your tweet about perhaps focussing less on videos so this comment is for the algorithm! Please keep making excellent videos!
@StrLo 3 жыл бұрын
Doing a PhD in cellular medicine, its so interesting taking in information from a topic I am not clued up on. Absolutely love your videos Simon!
@benjaminzerr6708 3 жыл бұрын
As a person who as spent time in both water vapor and clouds I can attest to the difference.
@debajyotisg 3 жыл бұрын
I can see the effort that goes into making these videos. Good job, Simon!
@JoeeOSullivan 3 жыл бұрын
Came for the Uni admissions help but stayed for the amazing content!
@matt123miller 3 жыл бұрын
After being productive with you and the community all afternoon on stream I'm taking a break to watch this now
@calumhughes7115 3 жыл бұрын
Really sweet animation! On the same level as 3 Blue 1 Brown in terms of using helpful visualisation to aid understanding.
@khoih2623 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing visualisation Simon! Must be so rewarding when it works out at the end! Probably much less so during the coding xD
@treehouserudolf9924 3 жыл бұрын
How did you learn such complex programming it was at ur undergraduate or PhD or from some other platform .just love ur content very much
@Pranav-un2ek 3 жыл бұрын
He started learning python during his PhD at www.python.org/ but i might be wrong
@SimonClark 3 жыл бұрын
^ yep, exactly this! I was self taught starting with www.learnpython.org/
@MrThelemonrose 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant explanation as always! Thank you both for your greatly informative videos. Have a good day! 💕
@AllAboutClimate 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing visualisation, loved it!
@ThomasRintoul 3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video Simon! Had I not seen the streams, what you talked about in the opening shots of the visualisation might not have been too clear but the rest of the video was really good!! also you and Adam make a good team!
@ClimateAdam 3 жыл бұрын
yes was so much fun collaborating on these vids with Simon! definitely couldn't have made those stunning visualisations myself.
@Zarrock184 3 жыл бұрын
Another fascinating video Simon, keep it up!
@emranpoh5314 3 жыл бұрын
ayyy whatsup simon, how you doing. vids amazing as always :)
@simonnorris8076 3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Simon!
@constantinople999 3 жыл бұрын
Commenting for the algorithm to support our boi Simon
@ClimateAdam 3 жыл бұрын
So great working on this together and seeing these amazing visualisations bring everything to life! For more on why water amps up global warming, check out the video Simon and I made on my channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5ZjgNt1sNSmkWw.html
@sotirios-efstathiosantonou1457 3 жыл бұрын
That's f**cking awesome! mic drop!
@mathis2 3 жыл бұрын
great vid Simon!
@keilanbarnes 3 жыл бұрын
Very cool and tangible for a non-climate PhD student like myself. Thank you Simone
@jurisbogdanovs1 Жыл бұрын
According to some data I have seen, the water amount of atmosphere, aka humidity, is reducing instead of increasing...
@timbojimboprandtlnumber1274 3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always!
@scalyscallion 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Simon. I'm just curious, why are there less clouds covering the ocean? Is there any reason behind this?
@peterdollins3610 Жыл бұрын
Terrific video. Thanks.
@Mikey-xj7zr Жыл бұрын
Can you explain how the atmosphere moves with the earth - and what effect this has on winds as I’ve not seen it referenced anywhere?
@jimmyedison9305 3 жыл бұрын
Simon, how much time did the rendering take in Blender?
@boathemian7694 3 жыл бұрын
Climate Adam subscribed
@ClimateAdam 3 жыл бұрын
welcome!
@atmonotes Ай бұрын
is there code available for this simulation? its blender, right?
@cardinalwiggles 3 жыл бұрын
This is a great video!
@snigdhasamantaray3575 3 жыл бұрын
Hi! This video is quite informative, and the visualization is excellent. Thanks! :) One question that pops up in my mind is whether different cloud types have varying heating effects?
@fromnorway643 3 жыл бұрын
High altitude clouds produce more warming than low altitude clouds. Both types absorb infrared radiation from the ground and both types emit infrared radiation to space from their tops. However, high altitude clouds being much colder will emit much less radiation to space than low altitude clouds do, therefore reducing the total heat loss. If for instance the surface temperature is 20°C and the temperature at 10 km altitude is -45°C, cloud tops at that altitude will emit only about *150 watts* of infrared radiation per square metre. Conversely, cloud tops at 1 km altitude and 13.5°C (assuming 6.5°C of temperature drop/km) will emit about *380 watts* per square metre, more than twice as much as the clouds at 10 km do. Since all clouds also reflect sunlight - which has a _cooling_ effect - the net effect of low clouds tends to be cooling while the high clouds are warming. Another factor is the size of the droplets they are made of since clouds consisting of small droplets are brighter (more reflective) and thus more cooling than those consisting of larger droplets.
@bartroberts1514 3 жыл бұрын
Those clouds are very pretty. Have you considered cloud fractals rather than blobby circles?
@paddyokearney 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, Just wondering would it possible to upload a visualization of the planet's atmosphere into a space possibly altering the co2 composition by fader it up and down? FYI I do realize that probably would take an inordinate amount of time, but you know, tis an idea sure.
@arnehofoss9109 2 жыл бұрын
Altering 0,04% of the atmosphere? Up and down?
@paddyokearney 2 жыл бұрын
@@arnehofoss9109 in the simulation, yes.
@infinityunknown3357 3 жыл бұрын
comment comment please boost this video for all to see! simon we got yo back
@bshaw8175 3 жыл бұрын
wow thats insane
@nid5504 3 жыл бұрын
🎉🎉🎉
@hydrogenone6866 3 жыл бұрын
Its interesting, I wonder with the extra moisture that is available, could it be used to make the Sahara green again?
@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 3 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mpOefJt-p9-tfGw.html This old NASA visualisation suggests increasing equatorial and sahel precipitation what it doesn't say is whether it's going to be destructive flash floods or useful rain
@avicennam7708 3 жыл бұрын
Did you see what Britain is making clouds in dubai using drones. Also very interesting models from an engineer but no geophysicist.
@xchopp 3 жыл бұрын
6:21 -- You're going to need to explain to some viewers that water vapor is a condensing gas at Earth-like temperatures (and perhaps that cloud type and optical depth are also temperature-dependent), while CO2... not so much. Once in the air, CO2 is not going to condense out; only rock weathering (over hundreds of thousands of years) and plants and algae (over much short periods) are going to draw it down. If you don't explain this, you risk a bunch of ppl spewing the following non-sequitur: "water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, so CO2 doesn't matter!".
@adanactnomew7085 3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Water vapour is dependent on temperature, CO2 is not.
@suicideme 2 жыл бұрын
watching the videos I listed in my watchlist: 7 video
@simonabunker 3 жыл бұрын
So this visualisation is pulling in data from an existing model, not CLAUDE? I assume you will be connecting them together in the future? Looks great! You should maybe make the clouds into a proper volumetric next.
@emmabird9745 2 жыл бұрын
Just goes to show that the cooling systems of power stations need to be controlled and casts questions against nuclear and geothermal as solutions to the problem. Maybe steam turbines aren't so good however they are powered.
@matt123miller 3 жыл бұрын
Mind blown that you can just write code to simulate the earth
@robsengahay5614 2 жыл бұрын
I suspect that some won’t get past ‘all climate models have biases’ 😆 😉
@eduguidea 3 жыл бұрын
🛑 We have to understand, we are ALL responsible!
@kylehurling68 3 жыл бұрын
Good lets fuckin send it!
@dowrgi 3 жыл бұрын
Comment for al
@luisleon4853 3 жыл бұрын
Hola
@youkofoxy 3 жыл бұрын
wait... is that CLAuDE?
@snoop8692 3 жыл бұрын
First ?
@DavidSiegelVision 2 жыл бұрын
So many wrong or misleading statements in this video. Can we have a conversation about this? Do you want me to make a list? I'm @pullnews and would like to discuss the content of this video with some climate scientists who can add a different perspective and help improve your message. Please message me to set it up.
@gliderarts3573 Жыл бұрын
Zero clouds in dallas all month.........
@nickcurrant2254 Жыл бұрын
I don't much care for the fact that the uncertainty amongst climatologists, regarding the effects of clouds on climate sensitivity, was hardly mentioned in this video. Giving a passing mention to the wide range of models without acknowledging this, is missing half the picture in a video that is supposed to be about this very subject. Are low clouds decreasing? Are high clouds increasing? How might you quantify the magnitude of that influence on climate without accurate global data? Do you have it? because without it, you cannot confirm your model's accuracy. This is the nature of the beast. Please don't lead your audience away from the realm of observation and hard data so carelessly.
@joecliffordson Жыл бұрын
What happens when electro magnetic changes in the ionosphere cause thermosphere warming thereby melting the permafrost turning out all the frozen co2. We see rapid changes in our past climate. So fast that it is blamed on impact. Solar particles perhaps? Such a big mistake in the models concerning water vapor. Doesn’t it shake your confidence concerning the role people have in co2. I mean it seems like jumping to a conclusion to say we didn’t realize how much warming was caused by water vapor. Oh water vapor must be amplifying human effects. Really? How about oh! I guess we didn’t fff it up so bad aye? But from what I understand no funding supports that idea. It is literally a career killer in the science funding. Thank you for reporting the mistake in the model that water vapor holds in more heat than previously thought. What I wonder is what was that mistaken greenhouse effect blamed on prior to this discovery? My take on the models was people. So why not say oops it was water vapor not people instead of saying it amplifies all the other human co2 effects? Thanks again for keeping it real. Reporting the water vapor mistake brings you credibility so I hope my question is not dismissed as a close minded view. I just don’t follow the logic.
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