Jet Streams Quotes

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

The stratosphere is my church.

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.