The purpose of this work is to examine the usefulness of various types of meteorological observations taken from commercial aircraft.Photographs of clouds were taken from routine flights over the southern United States. Samples of some of these pictures are presented. One set taken of a line of thunderstorms is related to a synoptic map and a U.S. Weather Bureau Radu Chart. A time-lapse sequence of convective development is examined with respect to the thermodynamic energies revealed by the appropriate radiosonde ascent. The results suggest that the freezing process is a vital source of energy in boosting the cloud tops to the heights observed. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116570 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Mather, Graeme Kenneth. |
| Contributors | Hitschfeld, W. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Meteorology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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