Skylapse.org: Gravity wave

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30 March 2015 Augusta, GA Undular Bore/Undulatus Asperatus

An interesting set of gravity waves with undulatus asperatus from a decaying MCS over Augusta, GA.

29 August 2014 Kansas City Arcus Cloud

Master lapser Stephen Locke captured this beautiful shelf cloud from non-severe convection traversing Kansas City in August 2014.

2012 NIU Skylapse

This is a "best of" movie of time-lapse clips caught by the NIU webcam system from May 2012-January 2013. The movie is a one-hour collection of 173 clips illustrating skyscapes of contrails, deep convection, shelf clouds, stratus of all types, gravity waves, outflow boundaries, frontal passages, and everything in between (e.g., a hot air balloon passage, helicopters that look like UFOs hovering over a KDKB aircraft crash site, an outdoor inflatable for ROTC folks, and occasional visitors like birds and bugs). The webcam system captures images (1280x720) every 10 seconds from each of our perspectives (east, north, and west); that's about 3-4 GB of images a day! The images are then compiled and sped up 20x.

6 May 2007 Iowa Gravity Wave

A very cool lapse of undular bore/gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007. For a more technical assessment of this event, check out this journal article.

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.