MCEN 4228 Project: Time Lapse of Cloud Formations over Mountains - Prof. Shelly Lynn Mille, Assignments of Mechanical Engineering

Download MCEN 4228 Project: Time Lapse of Cloud Formations over Mountains - Prof. Shelly Lynn Mille and more Assignments Mechanical Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! MCEN 4228 – Flow Visualization Clouds 2 11/29/07 Darwin Millard 830 12 4439 ME: 706 - 471 1 For this project I wanted to make a time laps of the Front Range. I chose to take my photos on the west side of flagstaff around 1pm. A front was moving in around this time and the shelf that this made over Boulder was huge. At sunset this shelf lit up with spectacular clarity. I had to work during the afternoon each day this occurred so I took shots of what was making the shelf. I wanted to make a movie out of tiff files but they where too large for my storage device. I ended up making the movie out of jpg files which brought the quality of the images down significantly. To take these shots I used a tripod and my hand. My camera does not have an automatic time laps functions so I set the camera and took a picture every ten seconds. In these photos there are many different types of clouds. From the skew-T plot it is clear that the atmosphere was very stable over Denver, but over the mountains where my clouds where the atmosphere was very different. The mountains cause their own weather and alter wind patterns; this interaction with the atmosphere effects how the