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2012 Gallery - Clouds 2
For their second to last assignment, students were again 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.



Aaron Coady

Cumulus fractus, Boulder CO February 16, 2012 at 12:27 pm
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Gregory Lundeen

Foehn cloud wall, and mountain wave cloud, Boulder CO, 5:40PM on February 22nd 2012, Color reversed.
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Peter Davis

Cumulus, stratus and altostratus, Boulder CO, February 23 at 10:00 am, 2012
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Jake Anderegg

Stratocumulus, Boulder, CO, at approximately 6:21 AM on the 25th of February, 2012.
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David Oakley

Orographic stratocumulus and blowing snow, Estes Park, CO, 4:30 PM MST on 2/24/12,
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Qian Li

Orographic altocumulus, March 3, 2012, 4 pm, Boulder CO.
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Andrew Fish

Altocumulus lenticularis (mountain wave), Colorado Springs, March 3, 2012, at 5:00pm.
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Hayley Schneider

Cumulus, Boulder on March 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm.
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Jacob Wright

Orographic altostratus, Boulder CO, 6:00pm on March 3rd, 2012
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Michael Chilton

Mountain wave clouds, March 3, 2012 around 6:00pm, Boulder, CO.
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Scotty Hamilton

Sttratocumulus lenticularis, with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on top, Boulder CO, March 3rd 2012 at 6:30 PM
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Ankit Sharma

Mountain wave and altostratus clouds, Boulder CO, March 10th 2012, around 7pm. Sepia toned.
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Sam Sommers

Mountain wave cloud, Boulder CO, March 11th, 2012, 7 pm.
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Preston Wheeler

Cirrus radiatus undulatus, Boulder CO, March 22, 2012 at approximately 12 pm.
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Joshua Hecht

Altocumulus, March 23, 2012, 7:30 am, Boulder CO.
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Brayden Hass

Mountain wave cloud, Estes Park, CO, 3:30 in the afternoon on March 27th, 2012.
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George Seese

Moonlight through dissipating stratus fractus, Boulder, CO, April 5, 2012 at 10:29 PM.
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Douglas Schwichtenberg

Cirrostratus nebulosus and several altocumulus lenticularis, Medicine Bow, Wyoming, March 29, 2012 at 5:23pm. Color shifted.
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Kerylyn Lay

Cirrus with Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, Friday, March 30, 2012, at roughly 12:00pm, Moab, UT.
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Nicholas Cote

Stratocumulus and altostratus. Steamboat Springs Colorado, 7:00 pm on Friday March the 30th, 2012
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Devin Ohmart

Altocumulus lenticularis, Boulder CO, April 1, 2012 7:00 P.M.
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Colin Stewart

Mountain wave clouds, Boulder CO, April 04, 2012,12:22 PM.
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Nicholas Travers

Cumulus humilis and virga, Boulder, CO, April 4, 2012, 3:15 pm.
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Jeffrey Byrne

Altocumulus stratiformis perludicus, with corona, 3:30PM on the 5th of April in 2012
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Amanda Childress

Altostratus and stratocumulus, Boulder CO, 6:29 pm on April 5th 2012
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Guy Casavan

Altocumulus by moonlight, 5th of April 2012, at approximately 8:05 pm
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Joshua Smith

Shear in mountain wave clouds, Boulder CO, 7th of April, 2012 at 5pm.
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Mitchell Stubbs

Sunrise with altocumulus from Long's Peak, April 8 2012, 5:30 AM.
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Alyssa Berg

Stratus, Easter sunrise in Morrison, at Red Rocks, 6:30 am, April 8, 2012.
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Sreyas Krishnan

Cirrocumulus undulatus, rotated and mirrored, April 8th, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Boulder CO.
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Stratocumulus Cloud/Wind Turbine Interaction
Ernesto Grossman

Golden, CO, April 8th, 2012 around 2:00 p.m.
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Jennie Jorgenson

Cirrocumulus stratiformis undulatus, 6:45 am on Monday, April 9, 2012, Boulder CO.
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White Waves
Anthony Johnson

Cirrocumulus undulatus, Broomfield CO, 7:00 a.m. on Monday, April, 9, 2012
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Nathan Amack

Altocumulus, Littleton, Colorado on April 9th, 2012, 10 am.
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Andrew Tycksen

Orographic altocumulus, Boulder CO, 10:30 AM on April 9th, 2012
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Alexander Ting

Mountain wave clouds, Boulder CO, April 9th, 2012, 6 PM.
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Hamed Yazdi

Stratocumulus cumuliformis, Boulder CO, 7:30 PM on April 10, 2012
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Ryan Kelly

Cumulus fractus, Boulder, CO, April 11th, 2012 at 12:08 pm.
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Jeremy Baugh

Cumulus, Boulder, CO at 9:00AM on April 12th, 2012.
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Nick Beato

Cumulonimbus, April 15, 2012 at 4:00pm
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Benjamin Pacheco

Nimbostratus, San Antonio, TX, March 26, 2012 at 2:46pm.
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Travis Brown

Cumulonimbus, Key Biscayne, FL, 2:30 pm on March 31, 2012
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Emily Howard

Cumulus and altocumulus, Gulf of Mexico, April 1st, 2012, at 5:21pm
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Nick Shearon

Panorama in Puetro Vallarta, with altostratus, 6 pm on April 1st, 2012.
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Joshua Lester


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