I find 2 particularly interesting, because it matches my experience, but I have no idea what mechanism drives the system into discrete-ish states. Now I think about it, clouds seem related: we often see a “partly cloudy” sky with lots of discrete clouds scattered around and empty space between them, rather than a uniform less-concentrated cloudiness throughout the sky. That suggests bistability in cloud formation. What’s up with that?
Clouds are formed from local pieces of watery air that go up and cool to condense + have pieces of dusty air to condense on. So, you get entire pieces that are clouds
I find 2 particularly interesting, because it matches my experience, but I have no idea what mechanism drives the system into discrete-ish states. Now I think about it, clouds seem related: we often see a “partly cloudy” sky with lots of discrete clouds scattered around and empty space between them, rather than a uniform less-concentrated cloudiness throughout the sky. That suggests bistability in cloud formation. What’s up with that?
Clouds are formed from local pieces of watery air that go up and cool to condense + have pieces of dusty air to condense on. So, you get entire pieces that are clouds