Hi KAEP

I would like to go on the "monitor the wastewater off NSW coast" ride with you over the next 5 months. I would like to see if you are onto something.

Can we keep in touch?

Current SHA map changes:

Oct-7-06
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/tmp/sha1160195210.gif
Oct-8-06
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/tmp/sha1160283023.gif

* Sth Australia seems to have reduced the SHA anomaly that is visually assosciated with metropolitan wastewater pollution. For whatever reason, this will serve SA well over the coming week of Foehn weather.

* Sydney has retracted the High SHA anomaly associated with its deep ocean outfall wastewater flux. Its not enough but better than an expansion. It remains to be seen how much more this can be retracted and what mitigating effect it will have on the impending heatwave due thursday 12-10-6.

* NSW Sth Coast cheeseland has increased the intensity of its SHA anomaly. Not a good sign for Sth coast Bushfires in the months ahead.

These changes are almost subliminal but nevertheless if they portend future changes in the right direction we can expect to see a reversal in drought conditions and in bushfire potential in the areas indicated.

Tragedy,
By all means keep in touch.

A remarkable shift in the wastewater plume out of Bega/Eden is evident on today's SHA map. This should provide the sth coast with a better buishfire resistant profile for the predicted heatwave conditions Thursday.

Oct-8
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/tmp/sha1160283023.gif

Oct-9
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/tmp/sha1160367008.gif

The Sydney deep ocean outfall plume has remained static. In order to alter drought conditions a bigger effort at holding back wastewaters on a temporary basis is needed.
Putting up the "FULL" sign above Sydney would be a welcome move in that direction. The reduction in wastewaters from reduced population growth could end the drought and would be far better for the NSW economy, as well as social stability, than the net zero economic benefit of immigration into Sydney.

KAEP

Bare with me as I try and fully understand what you are onto. Can you please explain the SHA maps since they are on a large scale. What is SHA measuring? I take it it is the yellow area off the east coast we are monitoring? In the legend it is 35? What is 35? Are you saying these yellow areas are a result of wastewater plumes? What is causing the yellow areas in Great Southern Ocean and elsewhere? Are the yellow areas in these other areas relevant? You refer a couple of times to SST - what is that?
How do you propose the NSW govt can manage its wastewater especially since you believe it can be done quickly for a turn around in drought fortune?

In relation to bushfires, the only element humans can control with confidence is fuel (and 21st century urbanite experts make sure we can't even do that these days!). You are now saying by controlling wastewater plumes, we can control the weather (or climate) to avoid a severe bushfire season. Remember, just because we have severe fire weather doesn't mean we have fires - we need an ignition source and fuels for that.

T,

Sea height anomalies or SHA measures the change in height above the light-green sea level. Deep blue is 35cm below and Deep red is 35cm above sea level. SST maps are Sea Surface Temperature. A combination of SHA divided by SST is related in a convoluted way to ENTROPY which is a measure of the disorderliness (eg wastewater pollution) at the sea surface. More on that later.

Total Energy in the sea surface is potential energy (including stored heat and the 'mgh' of SHAs above or below sea level) and the Kinetic energy. All energy incident to the planet from Geo-mech, Geo-thermal, solar, tidal, spin and biological(including human sources) eventually shows up in sea-surface-harmonics(SSHs) and have a fairly long residence time due to the high HEAT CAPACITY and surface tension of water.

This heat capacity is strongly increased by colloidal matter and other content of human wasewaters. Relatively small chnges in pollutants can dramatically change zonal thermodynamic properties (including entropy) and microclimates over polluted ocean areas.
Further, the flux of wastewates and their mixing is not a pure, instantaneous diffusion. Observation has led to RECCE theory which views the sea-surface-manifold as a Morse Map geometric topology over the approximate dSHA/T differentialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/morse_theory

This leads to concepts of RICCI flow from coastal wastewater sources, which can be analysed using the GEE (geometric-evolution-equation)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ricci_flow

Observations in US waters this year have confirmed this mathematical approach.

What is causing the yellow areas in Great Southern Ocean?
Heat migrates from the tropics and deserts to the roaring forties. I have long postulated that there is a settling zone that melts fringe ice and mimics ice cap melting. The GSO areas are confirmation of this.

The US has managed wastewaters this year in the GOM and off the East coast. It is clearly visible in their SHA maps. It is backed up by e-coli-outbreaks and manatees swimming the Hudson. If the US can do it, so can we. The stakes are HIGH.

Tmperature and humidity factors can be controlled by altering the thermodynamic land/sea balance. This WILL stop potential bushfire threats.

EAT THE EARTH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6033407.stm
On 9 October
The date symbolised the day of the year when people's demands exceeded the Earth's ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon it.

And as for global warming...
If diminishing resources, collapsing ecosystems or toxic pollutants don't get us, global warming certainly will.
Wake up and open your minds