{"id":1909,"date":"2008-04-16T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/gravity-waves\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T01:40:36","slug":"gravity-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/gravity-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='right'><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/2008\/04\/gravity.php\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that atmospheric gravity waves existed &#8211; at least not by that name &#8211; until I read the NASA article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/19mar_grits.htm\">Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes<\/a>.&#8221; I knew that gravity waves on a cosmological scale exist that are generated by high-density stars or black holes. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravitational_wave\">Gravitational waves<\/a> have been indirectly detected by observing deep space events, but have yet to be detected on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, getting back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravity_wave\">atmospheric gravity waves<\/a>, these are generated in the troposphere by frontal systems or by airflow over mountains. This interesting time-lapse video demonstrates the motion of gravity waves as they propagated over Iowa in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know that atmospheric gravity waves existed &#8211; at least not by that name &#8211; until I read the NASA article, &#8220;Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes.&#8221;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}