My precipitable water (PW) thesis stresses the importance of understanding that PW is the planet’s principal carrier of greenhouse energy effects as well as the only provider of Earth’s precipitation. It is widely understood that the PW content of the atmosphere near the surface is not an effective producer of precipitation, which means the actual processes that generate nearly all precipitation occur at a level several miles higher. This is a level where jetstream winds are to be found, ready to have an influence over the precipitation details. My thesis is also accepting of observations indicating the need for a similar type of understanding with respect to greenhouse energy effects. The same activity that has peculiar results on the precipitation side will likewise be of influence on outputs from the other. The amount of energy produced from PW existing up high may thus differ considerably from what is produced near the surface, conceivably even greater, depending on how well-concentrated a stream may be. Streams generally originate with high level concentrations that steadily decline, at varying rates, depending on the magnitude and complexity of different kinds of circumstances that can occur.
I will next display a set of images from the Weather Maps site offering a fine example of how everything is connected in this upper portion of the atmosphere, a place where PW behavior is, as usual, constrained by the presence of jetstream winds. In the first image one can see in the upper left the T-shaped signature of a concentrated PW stream moving away from the vicinity of Turkey, dividing and ending over western Russia:
This body of PW, which could only exist as replenishment of a moving stream, is a prolific provider of cloudiness and precipitation, as you can see on the next image:
The same body of PW is also a prolific provider of greenhouse energy, the effects of which are captured in this image of temperature anomalies directly below at Earth’s surface. The overlap in positioning with precipitation is not a coincidence, because they have the exact same source. The two main regions of anomaly both show relatively high readings in excess of +12C:
All three of the above images bear indications that whatever was carrying this stream of PW from parts to the south toward the polar zone came to a barrier that abruptly ended forward movement and caused the PW contents to spill out to either side. This activity should serve as a viable explanation for how the T-shaped formation was created. The next image employs two separate jetstream winds that show how the juncture event was accomplished. One wind segment would have served as a vehicle of transportation, placed in a position just right for carrying the PW stream contents northward. The journey would be halted by an even stronger jet wind, positioned horizontally, which the other did not have the ability to penetrate:
Jetstream winds are never positioned by accident, nor is their relative strength accidental. Both are governed by air pressure considerations, which at this altitude are quite different from surface considerations, with each new day subjected to alterations in the configuration. From this image we can tell that the upward moving jet wind was tied to the outer border of a green-shaded pressure zone. Progress was abruptly halted when it encountered a stronger wind on a separate pathway, tracking the outer edge of the zone shaded in blue. The entire configuration would normally be much more compact in the middle of a typical Arctic winter.
Carl