[FRIAM] Flying down the Ohio Valley

[Stephen Guerin]

Here's an animated view of the previous screenshots:

https://realtime.earth/demos/NicksWind.mp4
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Stephen.Guerin at Simtable.com <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
CEO, Simtable  http://www.simtable.com
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:38 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> while, flying you might want to bring up this wind map and look at the
> different pressure levels:
>
>
> https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-86.92,41.05,1653
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> _______________________________________________________________________
> 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 2:23 PM Stephen Guerin <
> stephen.guerin at simtable.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>> 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 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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