The swirling cloud mass in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Gabrielle before hitting the Mexican coast sometime Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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The scrub had to be called after Astronaut Office Chief Charles Precourt, flying the Shuttle Training Aircraft, detected precipitation in a cloud mass that moved into the Complex 39 area shortly before launch.
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After enhanced convection associated with the surge on the east side of Abe's main convective cloud mass wrapped around the north, the storm's center of circulation reorganized to the north between the competing convective masses.
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As the system brushed New Caledonia, a trough of low pressure moved into the Tasman Sea, which caused north-northwesterly winds over the system to strengthen and shear the storm's upper level cloud mass towards the southeast.
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One of the cloud masses amplified the mid-level moisture over Rapid City, while the other mass caused the pressure to stay, as the high pressure pushed downward, thus creating the right conditions to produce rainfall.
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By recording reflections from the pulses of green, ultraviolet and infrared laser light as they strike the atmosphere, an international team of researchers hopes to demonstrate the capabilities of the instrument to detect and track air pollution and accurately calculate cloud masses.
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}} The depression was upgraded to a tropical storm on August 29 based on satellite presentation that depicted significant cirrus outflow and a comma & ndash; shaped cloud mass spanning 2?of latitude in diameter and was subsequently named " Lily ".
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John Hales, formerly of the Phoenix National Weather Service office, wrote in the April 1972 edition of " Monthly Weather Review " that gulf surges are related to large areas of cloud masses that are transported northward up the Gulf of California and spill into southern Arizona.
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The researchers say the fertilization has three key possibilities : to replenish phytoplankton, the primary food source in the food chain for global fish stocks; to " capture " excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and slow its accumulation in greenhouse gases; and to create cloud masses with the potential to trigger rain.
