Earth's Inverted Topography

[Marcus Diaz]

Pretty interesting picture here. Might take a while for your brain to process it correctly. If this was earth, where would we be living to see tornadoes? My guess would be that area to the west of Mexico, where you'd have the cooler air from the mountains clashing nicely into warm tropical air. Not to mention the desert off to the west would provide the dry slots to for and help create the classic setup. I could also see the area to the west of Spain also. So where would you live if this was what Earth looked like?

 

[Jeff Duda]

It's hard to say, because terrain like that would induce entirely different circulation patterns. Part of what makes the Plains such a great chase spot is the fact that it is sloped. It also has a good fetch of moist air. Where would you have to be to get moisture advection here? I'm not sure, but it's possible that lee troughing east of the Pacific Ocean ridge may help. However, you'd also ahve to be further south, so you would likely get much weaker UA flow and would probably frequently suffer from insufficient deep layer shear. Perhaps somewhere west of Africa or in the Meditteranean might be a little better. Howeve, regarding the Meditteranean, you'd run out of room to chase really quick.

South/southeast of India may be your best bet. It would feature a good fetch and lee troughing from the Indian Ocean ridge.

 

[MClarkson]

"South/southeast of India may be your best bet. It would feature a good fetch and lee troughing from the Indian Ocean ridge."

I agree. That spot would be where I would go.

 

[Paul Knightley]

I think without interlinked oceans the trend over time would be for them to freeze over! Without the moderating effect of a thermohaline conveyor we might end up with a snowball-earth style scenario.

 

[Michael Thompson]

I am 100kms ( 65 Miles) south of Sydney, Australia. I would not have to move far thanks to fairly steep continental shelf, and those hot dry NW winds we get now, will be moisture filled instead. Bring it on !!