STS-099 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Debriefing with Crewmembers
March 7, 2000

ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC PHENOMENA
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STS099-741-39
photo ID STS099-741-39
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Cloud Streets of Cold Air Advection - A bitterly cold blast of arctic air plunges southward from far eastern Siberia, across the frozen Gulf of Anadyr, and out over the cold, but relatively warm Bering Sea where streets of stratocumulus form and spread. Again, parallel bands of clouds indicate advection of air and heating from below.

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