{"id":194,"date":"2009-05-07T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:54:03","slug":"zoned-nimbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/zoned-nimbus\/","title":{"rendered":"zoned nimbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/10\/3670\">Recent research<\/a> &#8221; demonstrates that local and regional patterns of land use change substantially altered cloud patterns&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;patches of trees behave as &#8216;green oceans&#8217; while cleared pastures act like &#8216;continents&#8217;, creating regional (mesoscale) patterns in shallow (lower) cloud cover layers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cue <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\">BLDGBLOG<\/a> to suggest a city built with the aim of controlling the cloud patterns above &#8212; rather being zoned &#8216;R-3 Residential Low Density&#8217; a block might be zoned &#8216;Cumulus H-2&#8217;.\u00a0 Arguments ensue about whether it is acceptable to have blocks zoned Nimbus so close to a cluster of Altostratus.\u00a0 Towers rise not in defiance of gravity but to paint the sky with subtly altered cloud volumes; city blocks are leveled and replaced with forests, in order to draw the clouds down onto them.<\/p>\n<p><em>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/ecotope.org\/blogs\/post\/Landscapes-reflected-in-the-clouds.aspx\">Human Landscapes<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research &#8221; demonstrates that local and regional patterns of land use change substantially altered cloud patterns&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;patches of trees behave as &#8216;green oceans&#8217; while cleared pastures act like &#8216;continents&#8217;, creating regional (mesoscale) patterns in shallow (lower) cloud cover layers&#8221;. Cue BLDGBLOG to suggest a city built with the aim of controlling the cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-clouds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}