Sunday, May 20, 2012

Kansas

I arrived in Kansas last Tuesday for the first part of our field study.  I flew into Wichita, then drove an hour and a half north to Salina.  I saw mostly farmland on the trip.



The goal of the field study is to look at what happens to ground-level pollution when it's lifted to the upper troposphere by large convective thunderstorms.  We usually fly back and forth at low altitude measuring what is flowing into the storm.  Then we fly to the top of the thunderstorm and measure what's coming out.  We focused on this thunderstorm yesterday:


That picture was taken with my iPhone.  Next time, I'll remember to take my camera!

Finally, I saw my first solar eclipse tonight.  I was out at dinner, so once again, I didn't have my camera.  By the time I got back to my hotel, the sun had almost set.  You can just make out the eclipse on the left side of the sun:


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