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The first movie is a long duration satellite loop showing that the Pacific was ripe with hurricane activity as a likely consequence of unusually warm water off of the coast of Peru (El Nino). Each (infrared) image in the loop is separated in time by 6 hours. Once the second hurricane made land (hurricane Nora), note how fast the remnants crossed the continental U.S. The loop ends just after our mission on the UND citation aircraft. The second movie is a shorter duration version of the first movie that shows the development and dissipation of hurricane Nora. The third movie shows a satellite loop of visible images (note the shadows) over the state of Oklahoma during the UND Citation mission above and near the DOE ARM-CART site, labeled CF in the movie. The cirrus was fibrous at first, and thickened later. The presence of several contrails is a reminder of a direct influence on the microphysical character of cirrus, and indicates that the downstream character of cirrus will be affected by the upstream generation, modification, and transport. The other two still images are from the NOAA 12 satellite, and show the cirrus just after the Citation mission ended. The visible image shows that sunset was approaching in the east, and also shows the cell structure of the cirrus. The IR image shows several contrails in the east, and a pocket of thick cirrus just east of CF. ABOUT THE IMAGES: The movies are in the Quick Time format, and were assembled using Adobe Premier. Photo JPEG compression was used to obtain reasonable sized movies. The still images were left in gif format. |