[FRIAM] Flying down the Ohio Valley

[Stephen Guerin]

oops meant to write:

*write* down your flight information as we can also pull up the flight
track and match it to the time of your photo.
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:22 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> Nick,
>
> We can help you match the images clouds to the SkewT diagram with an
> Augmented Reality overlay. Right now it is a manual process but we hope to
> make it automated in the near future.
>
>
> As I always have to go back and lookup how to read a Skew-T, is it true
> that this is from a single location (Norman, OK) and the x-axis is
> temperature and Yaxis pressure (proxy for altitude)?
>
> For manual process:
> Take some photos while you're looking out the window with your location
> services on (GPS). you may need to hold your phone next to the window to
> get a good GPS fix. And make sure your camera is "geocoding" your photos.
> It should store lat/long and altitude. The GPS is +- 100 ft with GPS and a
> little more accurate with barometer but in a pressurized cabin, the
> barometric altitude is not helpful. Right down your flight information as
> we can also pull up the flight track and match it to the time of your photo.
>
> You can also try our beta of https://reatlime.earth while you're on the
> flight for encoding video and photos. On iphone open it in Safari. On
> Android, use Chrome. Take photos using the webpage. Android is a little
> better right now as we can use the hires image and record video instead of
> just images at video resolution.
>
> -Stephen
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Stephen.Guerin at Simtable.com <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
> CEO, Simtable  http://www.simtable.com
> 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505
> office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828
> twitter: @simtable
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:02 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> To the Weather Nerds among you,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve been flying down the Ohio Valley for the last hour at 38kft.  Just
>> crossed the Mississippi above St. L.  I sprang for the WIFI and so now I
>> have a clear view of the bottom of the atmosphere out the window and a skew-t
>> diagram <https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundings/help/index.html> and weather
>> map <https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/noaa/noaa.gif> of the same on my
>> computer screen.  There ought to be SOME relation between them!
>>
>>
>>
>> Flying down to Baltimore from Hartford there were scattered to broken
>> clouds arranged in “streets” and quasi streets and proto streets. But the
>> interesting thing was that the streets were arranged with respect to each
>> other all higgledy=piggeldy, even at what appeared to me the same layer.
>> This made me think that the “streeting” of clouds is not, as I had always
>> supposed imposed on a layer by forces extrinsic to that layer, but
>> something that “self organizes”  within the layer and that the layer I was
>> looking at was at some critical state with trying to decide which way to
>> street.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody have anything to say about any of this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
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