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Image of the Week Archive — February 2005
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Spatial Correlation of Rainfall from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
February 27, 2005 —
The "spatial correlation of rain" is a measure of how likely it is to be raining simultaneously at two nearby spots. The TRMM satellite instruments detect rain with a resolution of roughly 10 km. The figure repre . . . [continued]
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Aerosols may cause anomalies in the Indian monsoon
February 20, 2005 —
This image, taken by Terra/MODIS instrument on December 17, 2004 shows thick haze and smoke along the Ganges Basin in northern India. Major sources of aerosols in this area are believed to be smoke from biomass burning in the northwest part of India, and . . . [continued]
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How large and how cold is that cloud on the horizon?
February 13, 2005 —
Some of the ÒcommonÓ clouds we observe daily are larger and colder than they look. This example is a large cumulonimbus cloud observed over Brazil during the LBA-MODIS-CLAIM experiment on January 21, 2005. The Cloud Scanner Instrument (CSI), a prototype, . . . [continued]
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The Brouhaha over Enhanced Absorption of Sunlight by Clouds: What Went Wrong?
February 6, 2005 —
This is one slide from a well-received recent talk by Warren Wiscombe entitled "The Brouhaha over Enhanced Absorption of Sunlight by Clouds: What Went Wrong?" This talk attempted to review, from a somewhat philosophical viewpoint, the history of the often . . . [continued]
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