Dr Dan Satterfield at his Wild Wild Science Journal tipped a report regarding some fascinating retrospective modeling work done by NCAR reported by Dr Bob Henson at their Atmos News periodical.

It provides a fascinating and visually stunning view of the operation of latent heat of water on a massive scale. (Dr Steve Carson has more detail here. It’s a complicated business.)

One detailed video is shown below, but see their article and the Atmos News YouTube channel for more.