{"id":96,"date":"2010-05-31T01:31:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T01:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cires.colorado.edu\/blogs\/shupe\/?p=96"},"modified":"2014-06-05T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:27:42","slug":"seeing-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/2010\/05\/31\/seeing-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/MSF_cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-97\" title=\"MSF_cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/MSF_cloud-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/MSF_cloud-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/MSF_cloud.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>With most of our instruments now installed, we&#8217;ve focused on the details&#8230;.\u00a0 Tuning up the instruments, making them all talk with each other via the network, moving data files around and making sure they are archived, and evaluating data quality.\u00a0 Two days ago we had an ICECAPS team meeting and starting putting together a list of things that still need to be done, and it was a very long list!\u00a0 Glad I still have more than a week here at Summit, and I&#8217;m thinking that some of the last details will be handled remotely after getting home.<\/p>\n<p>During th<a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/FirstRadarData.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98\" title=\"FirstRadarData\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/FirstRadarData-294x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/FirstRadarData-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/shupe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2010\/05\/FirstRadarData.png 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a>e last couple of days we&#8217;ve had a great stratiform cloud layer, mostly overcast with occasional breaks.\u00a0 And almost continuous, but light, precipitation of ice crystals.\u00a0 The cloud view from the radar is shown to the left:\u00a0 Multiple cloud layers over the course of yesterday, up to altitudes of 6 km.\u00a0 But the most notable feature is the persistent, low-level stratiform mixed-phase cloud with signs of in-cloud turbulent motions.\u00a0  While our time at Summit has been rather short, and we only have a couple day&#8217;s worth of data thus far, I&#8217;d say that the clouds we&#8217;ve observed here are not too different from those that I&#8217;ve seen at other Arctic observatories in Barrow, Eureka, and over the Arctic Ocean.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t wait to observe the seasonal evolution of clouds at this site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With most of our instruments now installed, we&#8217;ve focused on the details&#8230;.\u00a0 Tuning up the instruments, making them all talk with each other via the network, moving data files around and making sure they are archived, and evaluating data quality.\u00a0 Two days ago we had an ICECAPS team meeting and starting putting together a list&hellip; 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