Image(s) of the month

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Lutz Lesch




History


May 1996 Remarkable air mass boundary over Central Europe

June 1996 Clear sky over Central Europe (CAVOK)


July 1996 Low pressure circulation pattern filled with cold air (left) and front related cb/ts (right)


August 1996 Initial guess of cyclogenesis


September 1996 Air flow confluence (south of Baltic Sea)


November 1996 Cold water streak between Greenland and Iceland


December 1996 Polar Front Jet Stream (PFJ) over W-Europe





January 1997 Swiss Jura, Black Forest and Vosges push through dense low level stratus


February 1997 Horizontal eddy streak south of Crete


March 1997 Convergence near the surface and upper air divergence


April 1997 Closed cellular convection over land


June 1997 Cloud cover and masked land-/water surfaces


July 1997 Floods of river Odra



September 1997 Lee effects (south of the scandinavian mountains)




October 1997 Polar Low



December 1997 Nowaya Zemlya Lee Waves






Fast moving coldfront crossing Northern Europe



March 1998 Topographic forceed air flow pattern


November 1998 The Alps (CAVOK)


December 1998 Low level inversion and internal gravity waves (cisalpin)




January 1999 Cold air mass (ST -30 C) over BALTIC SEA


March 1999 Pack-Ice at BARENTS SEA


May 1999 Extratropical cyclone NOEL


July 1999 Europe and cisalpine cumulus humilis/mediocris


August 1999 Solar Eclipse over Europe


November 1999 BORA


April 2000 ICELAND


June 2000 sun glint cis- and transalpine



July 2000 Forest Fires at GREECE and TURKEY



October 2000 First NOAA-16 / AVHRR images




January 2001 Ireland and UK "prob90" cavok




March 2001
Polar air mass cut off in connection with different sea surfaces




May 2001
Extratropical cyclone and East Mediterranean sandstorm




July 2001
"Etna" volcanic eruption




March 2002
GREENLAND, Sea Ice and Karman Vortex



August 2002
Upper level quasi-horizontal velocity divergence
and surface precipitation in northeast Germany
Divergence Equation




March 2003
Accumulation of sediments at the Adriatic coastline of Italy




August 2003
Forest Fires in Portugal




March 2004
Hurricane (?) Catarina




April 2004
Topography forces low-level vane of sandstorm crossing the MEDITERRANEAN SEA



March 2006
300 hPA Dynamicborne centers of horizontal Divergence of v(h)
at two POLAR FRONT JETSTREAM catchment areas
(dark blue lines, values .GT. 3.0 x 10E-5 [secE-1])

above BeNeLux and Switzerland
force intensive vertical upward motion and precipitation

3 March 2006, 12:00 UTC


April 2006
Coincidence of operational computed NOWCAST MSL precipitation area (EM grid, blue line, mm/6h) and
spaceborne NOAA AVHRR detected cloud patterns (superimposed)

22 April 2006, 12:00 UTC


October 2006
Remarkable divergence of v(h) at level 300 hPa (red lines)
and less advection of pos. rel. vorticity (blue lines)
in close vicinity to the right behind quadrant
of the Polarfront Jet core (catchment area) above E-France
force heavy upward motion with strong precipitation

03 October 2006, 12:00 UTC


July 2007
Cirrus patterns visualize
heavy upper air horizontal ageostrophic air motion v[h,a] (300 hPa)
in close vicinity to Polarfront Jet Core (PFJ) axis and Delta
(cross circulation northeastwards, normal and upstream accelerating)

03 July 2007, 12:00 UTC





Special Issue
(case studies to actual remote sensing related phenomenons):


Iceland volcano,3 October 1996 Iceland volcano,4 October 1996








Creation Date: November 2, 1996
Last Modification: June 21st, 2000

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