Earth Sciences and Image Analysis: Astronaut Debriefing Captions

STS-092 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
November 28, 2000

CLOUDS AND ICE

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STS092-703-75 Weakening cyclone and occlusion southeast of New Zealand 16/10. This system is well past its peak intensity with light winds and a lack of high level clouds. Near-stable convection controls cloud evolution: well-marked banding features remain around the circulation; frontal zone extends northward towards the equator with diffuse pattern of cellular cloud features due to low kinetic energy (weak winds).

STS092-720-26 A wind gust front makes an observable pattern on the ocean surface near the Fiji Basin (12.8S, 173.7E). The strong gust probably comes from a large area of thunderstorms reaching maturity and collapsing. When storms collapse a down draft is created and flows out from the storm. The clouds along the leading edge of the gust front are forming along an unstable area as the denser, colder down draft air meets the warmer ocean air.

STS092-712-67 Field of cellular convection clouds under stable conditions, southern Pacific Ocean.

STS092-703-32 Field of cellular convection clouds under stable conditions, southern Pacific Ocean.

STS092-702-25 Cumulus clouds with long shadows.

STS092-712-2 Icebergs. If these are in the south Atlantic (no databack for locational detail) they are probably traveling with the Circumpolar Current.

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STS092-703-75	Weakening cyclone and occlusion southeast of New Zealand 16/10. This system is well past its peak intensity with light winds and a lack of high level clouds. Near-stable convection controls cloud evolution: well-marked banding features remain around the circulation; frontal zone extends northward towards the equator with diffuse pattern of cellular cloud features due to low kinetic energy (weak winds).
STS092-720-26	A wind gust front makes an observable pattern on the ocean surface near the Fiji Basin (12.8S, 173.7E). The strong gust probably comes from a large area of thunderstorms reaching maturity and collapsing. When storms collapse a down draft is created and flows out from the storm. The clouds along the leading edge of the gust front are forming along an unstable area as the denser, colder down draft air meets the warmer ocean air.
STS092-712-67	Field of cellular convection clouds under stable conditions, southern Pacific Ocean.
STS092-703-32	Field of cellular convection clouds under stable conditions, southern Pacific Ocean.
STS092-702-25	Cumulus clouds with long shadows.
STS092-712-2	Icebergs. If these are in the south Atlantic (no databack for locational detail) they are probably traveling with the Circumpolar Current.

This service is provided by the International Space Station program and the JSC Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Directorate. Recommended Citation: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth." .
	NASA Responsible Official: Tracy Calhoun Curator: jsc-earthweb@mail.nasa.gov Contributors: Earth Sciences Web Team	National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	International Space Station National Laboratory Last Update:
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