Nicholas Tyrrell removed tropic/midlat dynamics discussion  over 8 years ago

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ocean temperatures will not cause the kind of convection that penetrates up into   the troposphere.\\   [If you change the temperature of the troposphere in one part of the tropics, above the Pacific for example, the tropical atmosphere will efficiently transport that temperature change around the globe. Away from the tropics the atmosphere behaves quite differently. You may have heard of the Coriolis force; it doesn't dictate which direction your toilet spins, that's a myth, but it does control the direction of cyclones, and large-scale atmospheric flows by pushing them to the left or right depending on which hemisphere you're in. The strength of the Coriolis force also changes, in the tropics it's very weak, and it becomes stronger as you move towards the poles. This means that if you heat the troposphere away from the tropics. - note: this is getting to technical/boring]  In the tropics, once the warmer temperatures reach the troposphere they spread out and encircle the earth. The ocean temperature changes are amplified because the land is more responsive to these tropospheric temperature changes.\\