The images are amazing. When looking for clear skies, I was curious if
you saved any metrics regarding how often a particular location (pixel)
is clear or cloudy?
(NOTE: I have no intention of visiting the cloudiest place on earth
with my vampire hunting kit. ;-)
You might find the weather simulation work done on the old (2005) "Earth Simulator" or newer
(2011) "K Computer" supercomputers in Japan really interesting.
I was curious if you saved any metrics regarding how often a particular location (pixel) is clear or cloudy?
We didn’t, but it would be pretty easy to re-derive. The cloudiest places at this scale are the sides of mountains in the Intertropical Convergence Zone[0], where wet air rises several thousand meters, thus cooling and thus condensing. For example, tomorrow I’ll be spending a lot of time looking at Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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The images are amazing. When looking for clear skies, I was curious if you saved any metrics regarding how often a particular location (pixel) is clear or cloudy?
(NOTE: I have no intention of visiting the cloudiest place on earth with my vampire hunting kit. ;-)
You might find the weather simulation work done on the old (2005) "Earth Simulator" or newer (2011) "K Computer" supercomputers in Japan really interesting.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-06-20/japanese_supercomp...
I was curious if you saved any metrics regarding how often a particular location (pixel) is clear or cloudy?
We didn’t, but it would be pretty easy to re-derive. The cloudiest places at this scale are the sides of mountains in the Intertropical Convergence Zone[0], where wet air rises several thousand meters, thus cooling and thus condensing. For example, tomorrow I’ll be spending a lot of time looking at Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
0. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y...