论文标题
平坦地球上的气象和海洋学
Meteorology and Oceanography on a Flat Earth
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论文摘要
为了洞悉大气和海洋，采用定性推理来预测世界与我们自己的地球物理流体动力学的，例如系外行星，核冬季的地球，其他太阳系世界以及遥远的未来地形气候。在这里，我们在平坦的地球上查看大气和海洋动力学，这是一个像特里·普拉切特爵士的幻想舞蹈一样的圆形星球。 Altough的几何形状是一个完全虚构的，有一个较丰富的视频由平坦的地球支持者进行了一大堆视频，这些人的错误阐明了如何被业余爱好者和新生科学研究人员误解和误用概念。因此，这种情况对地球物理讲师非常有用。我们表明，天气和海洋在平坦的，非旋转的地球和旋转的球形行星上的流动截然不同。如果需要的话，这些差异是平坦的Earh异端的令人沮丧的揭穿。这些截然不同的气氛和海洋的“高对比度”对于灌输开放的思想对于理解excoplanets，核冬季和气候后 - 气候后地球至关重要而有价值。
To build insight into the atmosphere and ocean, it is useful to apply qualitative reasoning to predict the geophysical fluid dynamicss of worlds radically different from our own such as exoplanets, earth in Nuclear Winter, other solar system worlds, and far future terrestial climates. Here, we look at atmospheric and oceanic dynamics on a flat earth, that is a disc-shaped planet rather like Sir Terry Pratchet's fantasy Discworld. Altough this has the disadvantage that this geometry is a completely imaginary, there is a rich larray of videos by flat earth proponents whose errors illuminate how concepts can be misconceived and misapplied by amateurs and freshman science studients. As such, this case is very useful to geophysics instructors. We show that weather and ocean flows on a flat, nonrotating earth and a rotating spherical planet are wildly different. These differences are a crushing debunk of the flat earh heresy, if one were needed. The "high contrast" of these very different atmospheres and oceans is valuable in instilling the open-mindedness that is essential in understanding excoplanets and Nuclear Winter and Post-Climate-Apocalypse earth.
