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Albert, the graduate student behind this work, was also in the news just a week ago with another cool discovery, see https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news22/danish-astrophysics-st...

Edit: and this from last year https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news21/danish-student-solves-...

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》This “total” temperature can also be described as a sum of temperatures on coarse (large) scales, temperatures on finer scales, even finer scales, etc. On large scales we see the well-known climate changes. Albert Sneppen’s study documents that the temperature differences become stronger on small scales (credit: Albert Sneppen).

》In other words, climate change makes the differences in temperature grow locally — and with large temperature differences come even more extreme weather patterns.

Makes a lot of sense.

He "discovered" this? This has been my understanding of how this all worked for years, unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here.

I don't think he discovered the conclusion per se. I think he discovered an analytical path to an already known/suspected conclusion via a novel application of cosmology math to planetary climate.

It’s been common knowledge in atmospheric science for the past 20 years (based on personal knowledge, it’s probably decades longer). Not only does it shake out of climate models, but it’s intuitive that more heat to redistribute will increase the amplitude of all the wave-like properties of the atmosphere.

Let's not downplay the astronomical math involved and the contribution made by Albert here! Just because we "know" the solution doesn't mean it's not worth valuing putting in the work to prove the conclusion. Thanks Albert!

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