Up through the atmosphere

They're flying above the clouds.

Well, make a right turn into it.

Studies of aerosol and polar stratospheric cloud microphysics, and of cirrus in the tropical transition layer.

15 degrees left, an opening!

If cloudy, fly under the clouds

Perhaps the most obvious is cloud cover, obviated in part by choosing a mountain top observatory site in a temperate climate zone.

It's a condensable in the atmosphere, and so recognizing this circumstance brought to the fore a whole world of bizarre possibilities. You can have methane clouds, OK, and above those clouds, you have this hundreds of kilometers of haze, which prevent any sunlight from getting to the surface.

There are several kinds of cloud formations.

Cloud cover I'm going to show it to you is up.

And if a cloud goes past, you can see a cloud on the tips where it's letting the light through.

That's a meanlooking sky. I can smell snow.

But then you enter the Redwood canopy, and it's like coming through a layer of clouds.

The weather was thick enough. Could have happened to anyone. Well, I think that covers it.

When you get lots of mist, low cloud, the wind starts blowing the snow up.

This is on the way up from Camp Three to Camp Four, moving in, up through the clouds.

The radar data will be particularly useful for monitoring the Mount Pinatubo area during the typhoon season through cloud cover, which adversely affects optical remote sensing sensors.

We will wait 10 to 15 minutes for the Zeros.

GMS observes cloud coverage and temperatures of sea surface and cloud top, and collects meteorological data from aircraft, buoys and meteorological observation stations in remote areas.

This warms the surface and produces rain that creates a thick layer of clouds, which acts like an umbrella to shield the surface from much of the solar heating.

It also distributes by facsimile the cloud images obtained.

YR Yeah. I did try in the clouds, but you lose orientation completely .

While, for example, the overall percentage of cloud cover in a given image might be acceptably low, the clouds that were present might obscure the specific geographical zone of interest.

GMS observes cloud images and temperatures of sea surface and cloud top, and collects meteorological data from aircraft, buoys and meteorological observation stations in remote areas.

The LIDAR In Space Technology Experiment (LITE) flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in September and observed clouds invisible to conventional weather satellites, dust clouds over Africa, and the structure of a super typhoon in the Pacific, including the top level of clouds and the storm apos s eye.

ATSR is used to measure the surface temperatures of the sea, land and clouds.

Due to the cloud coverage it is not possible to get the information over the whole country during one vegetation season.

It is also used in the measurement of cloud cover, aerosols, vegetation, atmospheric water vapour and liquid water content.

It experiences a large number of cloudless nights, a dark sky, excellent atmospheric transparency and low humidity.

Pursues research in satellite meteorology, air quality, stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, energy budget, cloud analysis and motion patterns of air masses.

Will changes in cloud cover and characteristics and in atmospheric aerosols amplify or moderate the rate of climate change?

Don't get too cocksure.

Gumo for clouds in the sky.

Both satellites are equipped with microwave (radar) instrumentation which penetrates cloud cover and darkness and provides information 24 hours a day.

And this is what they call Zero B type of water, because it comes from the clouds, pure distilled water.

So you create a cool place where clouds can accumulate, and you have the trees to initiate the rain.

In optical remote sensing, however, one of the major constraints that limits the use of this tool is cloud cover.

Microwaves are able to penetrate cloud cover and allow the monitoring of land use and coastal areas on a weather independent basis.

Cloud cover was studied to determine its role in the radiation balance and its effect on climatic change.

37. To overcome the inability of the above satellites to see through clouds, radar sensors were developed and deployed.

Even the slightest hint of color on the underbelly of a cloud would inform them and help them navigate with the keenest accuracy.

The near equatorial location of the receiving station and the cloud penetration characteristics of radar render the station particularly useful to those countries whose exploitation of conventional optical remote sensing data has been severely hampered due to the presence of heavy cloud cover, which often obstructs observation of the ground in equatorial zones.

. Given the capability of microwave radiation to penetrate clouds, ERS provides all weather images of the Earth surface and allows the monitoring of surface features even in areas, such as over equatorial and polar regions, where optical instrumentation fails because of frequent or permanent cloud coverage.

11. It was noted that, given the capability of microwave radiation to penetrate clouds, ERS provided all weather images of the Earth s surface and allowed the monitoring of surface features even in areas where optical instrumentation failed because of frequent or permanent cloud coverage, such as over equatorial and polar regions.

And so I managed to fly the balloon down through the clouds, and about 50 feet, before I hit the sea, threw myself over.