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Archive: Thu Mar 2019

Standing wave clouds over Virginia and North Carolina

GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm), Cloud Top Height, Cloud Particle Size Distribution, and Cloud Phase (above) helped to characterize standing wave clouds that developed to the lee of the Appalachian Mountains on 07 March 2019. The primary standing wave rotor clouds were composed of smaller supercooled water droplets,  with “banner clouds” composed... Read More