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Azimuth
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:55 pm Post Subject: INTERESTING NOAA AVHRR IMAGES – SOUTH ISLAND NZ |
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INTERESTING NOAA AVHRR IMAGES – SOUTH ISLAND NZ
  
To better appreciate these satellite images please click on the links below for enlargements. I have enlarged the cloud areas concerned and added them as inserts:
http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/albums/userpics/10019/kd11033_copy.jpg
http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/albums/userpics/10019/md11033_copy.jpg
http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/albums/userpics/10019/md20033_copy.jpg
Whilst searching the Landcare Research NZ, NOAA satellite image database sometime ago, I came across the three images above which I saved.
Image 1 above (from L – R) was recorded by NOAA – 15 at 0715 hrs on 11 March 2003 (archive image kd11033) and shows an unusual cloud formation reminiscent of a famous sporting company logo on the west coast, lower South Island. I have estimated the formation to be approximately 140 km long by 10 km wide
Image 2 was recorded by NOAA – 17 at 1010 hrs on 11 March 2003 (archive image md11033) shows the same cloud formation 2 hours 55 minutes later. The formation has spread somewhat and is now estimated to be 190 km long by 24 wide.
What is this cloud formation, a natural phenomena, a “hole punch” type cloud or is it an aircraft “distrail”?
Image 3 was recorded by NOAA – 17 at 1007 hrs on 20 March 2003 (archive image md20033) and shows a large “koru” shaped formation off the east coast near Oamaru. Again, is this a naturally occurring cloud formation or a large aircraft “distrail”? Estimated to be 88 km long x 42 km wide.
I regularly browse the Landcare Research NOAA archive and have never again seen formations like this there.
To learn more about NOAA AVHRR (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) satellites please visit their home page here:
http://www.noaa.gov/
Acknowledgement to: Landcare Research NZ who received and processed the NOAA data for the above images. Thanks Stella. Please visit their website here:
http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/?history=pn09115.txt
COMPOSITION
Just as an aside, I created the composition below overlaying inserts of the NOAA satellite imagery cloud formations on a map of the lower South Island relative to their positions. The scale is approximated. I have also included the location of NIWA’s atmospheric research site at LAUDER, Central Otago as indicated by the red arrow. When I first saw the NOAA images I could hardly help but notice the resemblances with the logo “tick” of a famous sports company and our “koru”. I created the “tick” in PS and the “koru” is a punga frond I photographed in Northland last month and inserted them next to the cloud formations. Enjoy.
Composition also posted in the “Nephelococcoygia – the lighter side of clouds” thread:
https://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?t=186&highlight=
Regards
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Hieronymous Bosch
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:22 pm Post Subject: |
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azimuth,
unbelievable! these sat images begs one to totally suspend our current worldview of reality. the average person will quickly jump to the conclusion that these are photoshop fakes. again, the best place to hide something this big is right out in the open.
my thoughts are this.. if an entity claiming to be god almighty walked among us today as a beggar and reported on the bbc to the world that.. 1. love is infinite, and the only thing that lasts 2. that the world as we know it will cease to exist tomorrow and 3. make peace with thy brothers and sisters..... half of the world would kill each other in a fit of rage overnight trying to prove their own view of who and what this presence means. the other half wouldn't believe it and look for confirmation from cnn, msnbc, reuters, or god forbid, tvone.. most of us would forget the first thing this entity that claimed to be god said. yet, some of us.. would have the happiest evening of our lives.
azmimuth, great find. your diligence and research is outstanding :)
cheers-
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Melody Anderson
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:37 pm Post Subject: |
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| Hieronymous Bosch wrote: | | azimuth, great find. your diligence and research is outstanding |
Agreed :-) Excellent work.
By the way, I think that perhaps these satellite photos are trying to tell us something. That koru shape looks suspiciously like the beginnings of the Mysterious NZ logo! If viewed from on the ground, at least :P |
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Azimuth
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:15 pm Post Subject: |
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Hi Mel,
| Melody Anderson wrote: | | By the way, I think that perhaps these satellite photos are trying to tell us something. That koru shape looks suspiciously like the beginnings of the Mysterious NZ logo! If viewed from on the ground, at least :P |
Indeed, but who was responsible for this subliminal cloud advertising :shock:
Regards
Azimuth. |
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Carus
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:53 am Post Subject: |
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Just spotted these photos on the Weather Wars website. Not quite the satellite perspective discussed above, but similar shape and strangeness.
The first one was taken in 1987 :!:
How incredible is that? Like something out of a computer generated movie.
Taken from this web site page:
http://www.weatherwars.info/dec1005.html |
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Melody Anderson
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:08 am Post Subject: |
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| Carus wrote: | | How incredible is that? |
Wow! :-s Those are truly amazing images... |
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Deano
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| Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:58 pm Post Subject: |
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| Could be computer generated lets not forget |
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Jean
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Melody Anderson
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:09 pm Post Subject: |
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| Good researching Jean :) |
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Carus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:15 pm Post Subject: |
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Yes good find Jean. Doing a search on billow clouds has revealed some interesting information. It seems that these clouds are naturally occurring but rarely seen and generally only last a few minutes. Their presence indicates potentially dangerous turbulence and pilots would tend to keep away from that area if seen.
This following web site shows another example with a photo taken from Denver, Colorado in 1954 with some more pictures and details:
http://roach.coas.oregonstate.edu/Modeling/Patch_summary.htm
Parallel bands of cloud can also be referred to as billow patches. Again the implication is that they don’t occur very often. The maths explaining these formations is also given (better freshen up on your senior school maths to get the gist of this one :? ).
Some other sites here give good explanations:
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter10/edd_shearzone.html
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met455/notes/section4/2.html
Also found on my travels was this stunning satellite photo (along with a few others and information about billow clouds)
| Quote: | | (About the photo above) Vortex Street from Canary Islands A vortex street often occurs when cloud formations over the ocean are disturbed by wind passing over land or another obstacle. In this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from July 5, 2002, marine stratocumulus clouds have arranged themselves in rows, or streets, which are usually parallel to the direction of wind flow. Downwind of obstacles, in this case, the Canary Islands off the west African coast, eddies create turbulent patterns called vortex streets. |
Web site: http://amath.colorado.edu/student/petersem/header.html
There are some similarities to what Azimuth has shown at the beginning of this post with the koru or tick. Another web site has noted this type of formation as a ‘comma cloud’ with an example over the pacific ocean (as below).
Web site: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/Atlas/
In consideration of the pictures that were shown on the Weather Wars web site (http://www.weatherwars.info/dec1005.html), it's hard to say but a bit of misinformation may have happened. The page that exhibits the pictures has a wide range of examples, some of which indeed look like scalar energy has been used to create them. I don’t feel a thorough explanation has been applied to some of the photos and I don’t know enough, at this time, to be able to discern properly. Where's a top meteorologist when you need one :?: :!: |
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smashdracs
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Hieronymous Bosch
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:18 am Post Subject: |
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:-)
smash,
yes. but nothing anomalous there.
that is the exact satellite signature for a thoroughly developed cold front around a strong low pressure storm system in the southern hemisphere. the low pressure is stalling around wellington with a clockwise rotational flow around that low (due to the coriolis effect).
we are getting a strong easterly flow down here in canterbury and it's very wet! hopefully get several centimeters of that "useful substance" we call rain :-) (welly may not need it so much though) |
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