Assignment 2 Met Essay

Named for the Roman goddess of dawn, the aurora is a mysterious and unpredictable display of light in the night sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis – often called the northern lights and southern lights – are common occurrences at high northern and southern latitudes, less frequent at mid-latitudes, and seldom seen near the equator. While usually a milky greenish color, auroras can also show red, blue, violet, pink, and white. These colors appear in a variety of continuously changing shapes. Sometimes the aurora is so dim and scattered as to be mistaken for clouds or the Milky Way; sometimes it is bright enough to read by. What does an aurora look like? Auroras can appear as long, narrow arcs of light, often extending east to west

These protostars look like stars with a cloud of gas and a disk around them.

Bruce Gernon was having an easy flight from Miami to the San Andros Islands with his father and business associate Chuck Laferte in their new Beechcraft Bonanza A36 in December 1970 for a short time before peculiar things commenced. A low lenticular cloud the crew spotted shortly into their journey seemed to be tagging along with the plane. The cloud suddenly changed into a cumulus cloud,

According to NASA clouds are made of water or ice crystals floating in the sky, not gas (add reference). A scientific explanation of how clouds are form is that water vapour evaporates from the earth into the atmosphere than condenses on the earth. There are many different reasons as to why clouds are formed. Some other ways include when dust, smoke or other particles are suspended into the air or when water vapour condenses into particles into the air (Skamp & Preston, 2007, p.

When I was reading Ona cloud rider I noticed that in one of the scenes they were good clouds and they were bad clouds, both sides different. So I went researching if they were different kinds of clouds. Yes they were different clouds, you can call them rain clouds or you can be more specific and call them high low or medium clouds. The groups are based on the height of the clouds kind of like some MLG tournaments how they referred some of their teams as A, D depending on what position they are in. My 2nd reason why this is real is look at some photographs at clouds, you can see tons of pictures about clouds and they are also some rarities of clouds like uncommon or rare clouds, an example

little circle-pointed spikes around it that apparently have no life aswell. Small blobs that fit into it

These clouds are proof of black holes being almost the reverse of a normal star: instead of creating matter to make energy, they destroy matter to make energy (94, Hawking

Aroras are seen as narrow arcs of light often starting from east to west in horizon. In the night skies they are also seen to form bands of kink, fold or swirl. They also form like curtains of ruffles that spread in multi colours. In almost all cases none of the two aroras looks the same. And they can also display dramatically different intensity even in the same night as some intensively bright and others even look like a thin cloud.

Cumulus clouds are the lovely, puffy ones that are good for finding shapes in. These clouds occur in many varieties of atmospheric conditions. Fair weather cumulus is called cumulus humilis or cumulus fractus (smaller and scattered). As a cumulus cloud continues to grow upwards, it creates cumulus congestus (towering cumulus), and can create rain showers. Dense and well defined, this low-level cloud (2000-3000ft) is such a familiar feature of sunny afternoons that it’s referred to as the fair- weather cloud. Cumulus cloud likes a giant ice cream, sitting on an invisible cone of rising

A rain-free base is a dark cumulous cloud base with no precipitation below it, rain-free bases usually mark the updraft of a thunderstorm. An inflow band is when low cumulus clouds start to outstretch from the storm, when this usually happens, the storm will be starting to gather low-level winds from about 7 miles away, this shows that there may be a swirling motion happening. A beaver tail cloud is a flat cloud that usually expands from the east edge of a rain-free base, if the flat cloud goes around the south edge of the rain-free base, this may pose as a swirling motion. What is a wall cloud? Well, a wall cloud is a cloud that is lowering while connected to the rain-free base. Wall clouds produce tornadoes that can last up to 10-20 minutes. A condensation funnel is made up of drops of water and once it starts to extend down from the base of the thunderstorm, if ever it touches the ground it forms into a tornado, if not, it is still a regular funnel. A rear flank downdraft is a rush of air that’s going down behind the storm that descends with a tornado. The rear flank downdraft causes the hook echo on a doppler radar. For a funnel cloud to form, a convection of hot air has to set a motion within the clouds to

Outside of my resident the sky is covered with mid-level gray clouds that form during the months of June, July and August. In addition to this, these types of cloud called Nimbostratus forms with separate large dense layers of scattered showers or freezing precipitation and they sink into the bottom of the atmosphere while covering the entire sky with darkness. The Weather Facts article (p., 4) believes, Nimbostratus rise into the planet’s upper atmosphere when warm fronts and depressions develop in damp skies, Weather Facts: Nimbostratus (n.d.).Their base also forms 6,500 feet below the planet’s atmosphere and when they are present in the sky other planets are difficult to spot.Nimbostratus clouds are classified with similar clouds that

Mr Nicholson said: "It is a vapid rainbow that is comprised of small water beads that cause mist.

I was never very familiar with the term May Gray or June Gloom until I moved to California. I grew up on the Oregon coast and it is weird to me that I never knew those terms existed! I remember the first time that I heard the term June Gloom, I was thinking, what the heck is that? I was in San Diego at the time and I actually asked what the term meant but the local didn’t describe it clearly so of coursed I looked it up. This article was interesting and it went in depth to what these terms meant and how these low clouds are formed. Also I thought it was fascinating that researchers can also predict the marine layer clouds a head of time!

The above image was posted on April 28, 2016 as NASA’s image of the day. This is a dust angel nebula. A nebula is a cloud of dust and gas that is visible when light reflects off of it. This nebula is about 300 light-years away from our galaxy, and is a collection of cosmic dust clouds. The nebula gets the cloud-like display from light projected from the Milky Way which is then bounced off of the molecular clouds, where the dust releases UV radiation as a red light/orange light (Space, 2013).

These are just a few examples of how fruits and vegetables can be positively and negatively affected by controlled atmosphere storage. We will explore the different mechanisms used in each form of controlled atmosphere storage and we will explore how different crops are positively and negatively affected by storage.