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Glendale Public Library: Special Collections

Glendale Public Library: Special Collections

He recollects in the most thoughtful way, as if he is watching ﬁlm footage or seeing still images ﬂash before him. “I’ve always lived in Glendale. Went to Glendale elementary school, junior high, high school and then Glendale College in the ’60s. Yep, I’ve been [Read More]

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Cirque-a-Palooza’s final weekend at the Pasadena Playhouse

Cirque-a-Palooza’s final weekend at the Pasadena Playhouse

The  historic Pasadena Playhouse has taken a significant departure in its offerings this summer by presenting [Read More]

Letter from the editor: Moving On

Letter from the editor: Moving On

Moving on. 2013 brought major changes for the Insider. In 2008, I talked the head of Glendale Community College’s [Read More]

X Games: bad news for fans of extreme sports

X Games: bad news for fans of extreme sports

Los Angeles has gotten a double-dose of bad news from ESPN’s X Games. On March 12, ESPN announced that it would be [Read More]

Gamer Girls Have Cooties: a look at rape culture in the video game community

Gamer Girls Have Cooties: a look at rape culture in the video game community

Cancer, infection, blight, vermin, disease, sewage, plague, waste These were the words that were written across a [Read More]

Coming Up: TwentyWonder benefit!

Coming Up: TwentyWonder benefit!

Please come out and support a terrific event for an important cause! Best described as a “Carnival of the [Read More]

NASA's Image of the Day

Cloud Towers

 
In a view from high altitude, height can be a difficult thing to gauge. The highest of clouds can appear to sit on a flat plane, as if they were at the same elevation as the ocean or land surface. In this image, however, texture, shape and shadows lend definition to mushrooming thunderheads over the Indonesian island of Flores. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image on the afternoon of Dec. 2, 2013. The towering clouds are so well defined that it is easy to visualize the rapidly rising air that is fueling them. “This looks like a classic example of island convection that is enhanced by topography,” says NASA scientist Joseph Munchak. During the day, sunlight heats the land more quickly than it heats the ocean. The warm air over land rises, creating an area of low pressure that pulls in cool air from the ocean. The result is a sea breeze. On this Indonesia island, the sea breeze from the Flores Sea on the north blows inland and clashes with the sea breeze blowing inland from the Savu Sea in the south. When the two breezes meet in the center of Flores, they push the air up. The rising air cools and condenses into a line of clouds. Sea breeze convection is not the only force at work here. On Flores, cloud formation has help from the shape of the land. A line of tall volcanoes runs down the spine of the island, and their steep slopes also force air to rise. So, moist ocean air blows inland, hits the mountains and volcanoes and rises with the slope. Above the mountains, the rising air meets the rising sea breeze from the other side, and the upward motion is reinforced. The combination of the two forces pushes air high into the atmosphere, resulting in large towering clouds of the sort that usually produce thunderstorms. In fact, a weather station on Flores reported rain and thunderstorms on December 2. This type of convection is strongest in the early afternoon, says Munchak, just about the time when Aqua MODIS acquired the image. The clouds were just beginning to form when Terra MODIS passed over earlier in the day. > Read more Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC Caption: Holli Riebeek
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