The story of the HMS Soltis – the red balloon
Cloud cover was 8/8. Low level clouds were a blanket of stratocumulus. Some drizzle occurred on descent. Temperature cooled ever so slightly on ascent, but was perfectly isothermal on descent. Dewpoint was nearly isothermal but was separated on descent and ascent.
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Cloud cover was 7/8 with cumulus, altocumulus, and cirrus. Stops at 10m. Slight cooling with height in this profile. Descent dewpoint was isothermal while dewpoint on the ascent was warming with height.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Cloud cover was 3/8. Low level fog was present as were altocumulus and stratocirrus. Slight inversion to 20m before atmosphere went isothermal. Dewpoint followed a very similar pattern, though usually it is not such an inversion.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Very heavy rain in the morning lasting for a while. Cloud cover was 8/8 with heavy fog. Slight cooling with height, but nearly isothermal. Dewpoint cooled with height and RH was nearly constant.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Cloud cover was 8/8 with stratocumulus. Isothermal atmosphere. Dewpoint was close to isothermal but cooled just slightly with height.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Cloud cover was 8/8 with stratocumulus. Atmosphere was approaching isothermal, but still was cooling with height. Dewpoint was isothermal except for a couple small deviations.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Cloud cover was 8/8 with stratocumulus dominating. Winds were 1 kt from the northeast. Stopped at 10m mark on ascent only. Some cooling below 15m followed by isothermal temperatures and dewpoints.
Posted on Jul 22nd 2011
Winds at 1 kt from the northeast. Cumulus, altocumulus, and cirrus all were present. Stopped at the 10m mark to calibrate with the tower for 5-10 minutes on ascent and descent. Temperature appears to show an inversion, though the sun was out so it is more likely that the temperature increase at 10m is due [...]
Posted on Jul 21st 2011
No wind. Cloud cover was 8/8 with heavy fog. Some drizzling as well. Isothermal atmosphere occurred in the heavy fog.
Posted on Jul 21st 2011
1 kt of wind from the northeast. Cloud cover was 6/8 with stratocumulus, altocumulus, and cirrus. A rain wall was rapidly approaching. Totally isothermal temperatures and dewpoint, which seems odd because a storm was approaching.
Posted on Jul 21st 2011