Archive for July, 2010
- Spectacular contrail outbreak over Wellington - July 26th, 2010 , Written By: Ross Marsden | 15 Comments
- Layers and streets of cloud - July 5th, 2010 , Written By: Chris Noble | 1 Comment
On the afternoon of Monday 19 July 2010, a neat set of four persistent contrails moved across the Cook Strait area. NASA’s MODIS Rapid Response System captured the contrails in the image stream from the Aqua space craft which was over Wellington at about 2:20 pm. You can see the image on the MODIS web [...]
Clouds come in many different types and are characterised and named according to both their shape and height in the atmosphere. While a single snapshot in time at a given location may only contain one type of cloud, there are many days when multiple cloud types can be observed in the sky at once. On [...]