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Some Observations of the Clearing of Cumulus Clouds Downwind from Snow-Covered Areas
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite images that illustrate the clearing of cumulus clouds downwind from snow-covered areas are presented. The cloud clearing resembles that occasionally observed with lakes during warm advection, supporting the ...
Analysis of a Trans-Atlantic Saharan Dust Outbreak Based on Satellite and GATE Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We present the evolving fields of a Saharan dust outbreak and its associated air mass, as the outbreak and the air mass moved across the Atlantic over a nine-day period. New details are revealed from high-resolution satellite ...
Shallow Convection on Day 261 of GATE/ Mesoscale Arcs
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: On 18 September 1974, a cloud cluster growing in the GATE ship array was examined using aircraft flying close to one another at different heights, the geostationary satellite SMS-1, and radar, rawinsonde and ship data, ...
Deep Convection on Day 261 of GATE
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Aircraft, radar, satellite and ship data, gathered on 18 September 1974 during GATE, have been brought to bear an clouds of the middle and upper troposphere associated with a cloud cluster occurring near the ridge axis of ...
Heavy Thunderstorms Observed Over Land by the Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In an examination of microwave data from the Nimbus 7 satellite, brightness temperatures were found that were much lower than those expected for the radiation emanating from rain-producing clouds. Every case of very cold ...