Cool Geo-Pic: CERES Global Cloud Fraction
Low-altitude Cloud Fraction
download large image (1 MB, PNG) acquired December 27, 2008
High-altitude Cloud Fraction
download large image (672 KB, PNG) acquired December 27, 2008
From NASA's Earth Observatory - This is a student based online project to study cloud pattern formation. School has definitely gotten cooler since I studied clouds.....
Quick "Cut & Paste" highlights:
" .... Low clouds were more common over the ocean than over land, with the cloud-free skies over Earth’s driest areas standing out most prominently: the Sahara, southwest Asia and the Tibetan Plateau, Australia, and Antarctica. High-altitude cloud cover was patchier. A streak of high clouds penetrated the western Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean, and a river of high clouds meandered southeast from the heart of South America into the southern Atlantic. Only over the western Pacific was there widespread high-altitude cloud cover. ...."
Full Article - Click Here
Credits:
S’COOL Project Website
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NASA images created by Jesse Allen, using CERES FLASHFlux data provided courtesy of FLASHFlux team at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Instrument:
Aqua - CERES
Credits:
S’COOL Project Website
Arctic Reflection: Clouds Replace Snow and Ice as Solar Reflector
Arbiters of Energy
Global Maps: Cloud Fraction
NASA images created by Jesse Allen, using CERES FLASHFlux data provided courtesy of FLASHFlux team at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.
Instrument:
Aqua - CERES
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