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2010 Gallery - Clouds 1
For their second assignment, students were asked to photograph clouds, which represent a fabulous form of flow visualizaiton, available to everyone. The students also were asked to comment on the stability of the atmosphere based on skew-T plots, and on the atmospheric physics demonstrated in their images. Images are arranged by date.



Harrison Fast

Stratocumulus, 1/16/10, 12:30 pm, Wolf Creek CO.
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Stephen Lepke

Alto- and stratocumulus, 1/17/10, 1:30 pm, Vail CO.
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Terese Decker

Mountain wave clouds, 1/18/10, 4:59 pm, Boulder CO.
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Ben Britton

Mountain wave cloud and Foehn cloud wall. 1/18/10, 5:08 pm, Boulder CO. Longs Peak is at right.
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Patrick Zimmer

Altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus.1/19/10, 2:00 pm, Keystone CO.
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Jonathan Fragoso

Stratocumulus. 1/19/10, 5 pm, Louisville CO.
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Randy Williams

Nimbostratus; low, widespread and precipitating. 1/20/10, 3:01 pm, Keystone CO.
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Joseph Eisinger

stratocumulus castellanus below altostratus. 1/23/10, 8:22 am, Boulder CO.
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Vien Nguyen

Stratocumulus below cirrus. 1/23/10, 2:00 pm, Thornton CO.
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Tony Vo

Mountain wave cloud. 1/24/10, 2:51 pm, Westminster CO.
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Matthew Schulte

Color inversion of a fractus mountain wave cloud. 1/24/10, 4:20 pm, Boulder CO.
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Benjamin Maples

Altocumulus undulatus. 1/26/10, 8:48 am, Boulder CO.
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Jade Jauquet

Altostratus undulatus. 1/26/10, 3:45 pm, Green Bay WI.
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Patrick Wessels

Altocumulus lenticularis. 1/30/10, 8:12 am, Boulder CO.
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Nathan Weigle

Old contrail, "cirrus aviaticus". 1/30/10, 9:52 am, Vail CO.
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Josh Stockwell

Fractus or dissipating mountain wave cloud. 2/1/10, 1:30 pm, Boulder CO.
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Daniel Notary

Altocumulus lenticularis in HDR. 2/5/10, 10:24 am, Boulder CO.
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Jessica Lucia

Foehn cloud wall, with lenticularis wave clouds above, and cirrus above all. 2/5/10, 3:13 pm, Boulder CO.
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Allison Hamrick

Altocumulus lenticularis. 2/10/10, 2:15 pm, Boulder CO.
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Eric Stahl

Mountain wave clouds at two levels. 2/10/10, 5:24 pm, Boulder CO.
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Jason Carranza

Mountain wave clouds below altostratus. 2/11/10, 4:49 pm, Denver CO.
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Yevgeniy Fedotov

Mountain wave clouds. 2/12/10, 4:02 pm, Boulder CO.
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Levey Tran

Stratocumulus clouds transitioning to cumulus mediocris. 2/13/10, 2:00 pm, Boulder CO.
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Ilya Lisenker

Mountain wave clouds. 2/15/10, 2:00 pm, Boulder CO.
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Jon Vander Weele

Mountain wave clouds. 2/16/10, 2:15 pm, Gold Hill CO.
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John Murray

Mountain wave clouds. 2/16/10, 4:21 pm, Boulder CO.
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Jake Gigliotti

Stratus preceding a storm. 2/17/10, 4:30 pm, Castle Rock CO.
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Jonathan Varkovitzky

Cumulus and cirrus in advance of a storm. 2/18/10, 11:30 am, Boulder CO.
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Christopher Svedman

Cumulus fractus in advance of a storm. 2/18/10, 12:08 pm, Boulder CO.
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Peter Mitrano

Stratocumulus cloud in advance of a storm. 2/18/10, 3:00 pm, Boulder CO.
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