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Daily Summary for 11 December 2006

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Weather Summary — Flight Summary — Satellite Images — Surface Observations — Model Analyses — Radiosonde Soundings

Weather Summary

Southern Ontario was between two high pressure systems - one over the Mid-Atlantic States and one over James Bay. This left the region in a surface convergence zone, and there was plenty of cloud cover to show for it.

Flight Summary

The flight targeted the ~13:00 LT Mirabel overpass. GOES visible image and CloudSat swath from NRL below.

Satellite Images

GOES-12 Visible (during daylight hours) and Near IR (night) albedo from CIRA.

GOES-12 IR (10.7 µm) brightness temperature from CIRA. The color scale begins at 0 °C with an increment of -10 °C between color changes.

GOES-12 experimental cloud phase from CIRA. Blue represents ice particles, red is liquid droplets above freezing and yellow represents supercooled liquid droplets. Gray areas are clear (no cloud) based on an IR cloud mask.