Seems he has taught himself jet streak dynamics 101 with a little other basic meteorology mixed in...minus his theory that tornadogenesis occurs at the 250mb level ends up at the surface (not sure how he would account for low topped crapvection that produces wedges in the southeast), his overall theory is 101 type stuff. How did this ever get through to be presented? Poor Mr. Softwig :-(
What I find odd is that the most common type of waterspout environment is a tropical
atmosphere with no "jet stream" anywhere close. Same principle for landspouts and
gustnadoes. These are all shallow vortices, so how would the jet stream impact them?
Also, notice how "waterspout", "landspout", and "gustnado" are all capitalized. When did
these become proper nouns? Just saying check your spelling and grammar carefully when
you submit a paper to a professional organization!
It is good to have people thinking about why things occur, but the casual weather enthusiast
or researcher are of high probability not going come up with revolutionary theory that explains
a long standing, complicated question that has baffled the experts for decades. It's like when
I hear, "why can't we just harness lightning for all our power needs?" and some people
seriously pursue this as if it is something that hasn't already been researched and tried many
times over? Do people even think about the huge body of knowledge science has
accumulated over time that wouldn't have tried to answer that most obvious questions/
wonders for society's need?
Doesn't the AGU screen papers that are submitted for actual presentation at their
conferences? Just about any meteorologist would see problems with the paper here.
