CLOUD STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTIONS OVER THE TROPICAL PACIFIC. PART II
Abstract
An observational study of tropical oceanic clouds and their relation to the large-scale flow patterns is described. The basic material consists of three photographic flights made during July and August 1957 on Military Air Transport (MATS) cargo aircraft flying on regular schedules between San Francisco and the Phillipines. This analysis is concerned primarily with the results of the second flight. Twenty-four hundred feet of time-lapse motion pictures resulted from this circuit. This report analyzes the cloud developments and distributions shown on the film and relates them to the three-dimensional air flow and atmospheric structure on each flight leg. A fascinating sequence of situations was encountered, which gain further informative value in comparison with those of the other two flights of the series. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0262721
Entities
People
- Herbert Riehl
- Joanne S. Malkus
Organizations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution