APOD: Night Shinings (2008 Jul 02)

[emc]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080702.html

In spite of the global weather prediction implications, this is another beautiful land-sky-space scape to wake up to. The explanation is interesting reading as usual... even more poetic today for some reason.

I so enjoy my morning APOD's, especially these close-in earth views.

Anyone have more to add regarding the cloud migrations? Art, any alignment with your former work?

[neufer]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080702.html

In spite of the global weather prediction implications, this is another beautiful land-sky-space scape to wake up to. The explanation is interesting reading as usual... even more poetic today for some reason.

I so enjoy my morning APOD's, especially these close-in earth views.

Anyone have more to add regarding the cloud migrations? Art, any alignment with your former work?

I was more concerned with ozone eating
wintertime polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud

than with the (4 times higher)
summertime polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs).

But so far as tropical tropospheric clouds are concerned :
they do migrate north this time of year,
much like birds, (especially in India):

http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Eve ... _3B43.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

[emc]

I was more concerned with ozone eating
wintertime polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud

I remember when we had to pull trichlorethyline out of service in the PCB industry. I expect you were part of the catalyst in that regard. Now we are working towards lead-free. Seems the better something works (or tastes in the case of food) the worse it is for us and the environment

Did you primarily work with satellites or balloons? I expect the nacreous clouds were difficult to capture.

Maybe we will get an APOD of these nacreous clouds some day. 8) Or better yet, they become more and more rare!