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First 30 Minutes of Simulation
The image to the left is a link to an animated GIF image. You are looking down at the ground. Clouds of water droplets and ice crystals are fun to watch. Along with the terrain contours, the ground is colored with the changes taking place in the specific humidity (of water vapor). Red is where moisture is increasing, and blue is where it's decreasing. Besides watching the cumulus clouds grow into thunderheads, you can see the shower outflow boundaries move around. franco1.gif 2.7 Megabytes |
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Last 29 Minutes of Simulation
Again, you are looking down at the ground. This movie shows the same parameters as the one above. Thunderstorms erupt and a couple of mesocyclone dominate this movie. franco2.gif 3.2 Megabytes |
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The Entire Simulation
In this movie, you will look down at similar fields selected in the previous movies. Two things have been changed here: you get to see the entire hour in one movie, and the clouds made of ice crystals are colored their Potential Temperature. Anvils penetrating high into the Stratosphere are colored dark red. Red denotes Potential Temperatures of over 350 degrees Kelvin. There are three mesocyclones, in the southern half of this view, with tops that approach the 16 kilometer altitude (the top of the simulation). franco3.gif 5.4 Megabytes |
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Fancy view from the SSW
In this movie, the camera has been positioned so that your view is from the South-Southwest. The terrain contours are on. Showers and Thunderstorms galore can be seen. Clouds made of ice crystals are colored with their Potential Temperature. Clouds made of water droplets are colored according to their atmospheric pressure. Rain is also colored according to the atmospheric pressure. (Rain shafts show up on the bottom of these thunderclouds as orange, pink, and red.) I chose not to render snow and hail fields, as minds would get blown. fran-SSW.gif ~2.1 Megabytes |
