In the sunglint region of the Aqua swath (22:20 UTC, July 19th, during Research Flight 07 of the NSF CSET project), you can clearly see cold pool boundaries in the sea-state. Presumably changes in capillary waves amplitudes associated with different wind speeds are altering the amount of sunglint. I suspect that the mean wind here is pretty light in order to see strong reflections. You can also see a band of new cumulus clouds at the convergence of the outflows.
MODIS sees open cells in all sectors of this extratropical cyclone. As seen in EOSDIS Worldview.
Here is a great example of liquid water high above an ice-topped cumulus, seen with EOSDIS Worldview.
The upper level altocumulus cloud is at 6.5 km and lower ones top out at 3-3.5km, as seen in CALIPSO.
These cloud arcs seen in Worldview, with a shallow cumulus field below 1 km and extended arcs of deeper cloud to 3 km are quite remarkable. CALIPSO provides amazing information about the cloud heights, see below:
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Excellent case of open cells of the Washington coast seen with WorldView, Turning to cumulonimbus onshore. April 1st 2015. It was the loudest thunder I ever heard in Seattle.
The image below shows a zoomed in portion, this time using the 3-6-7 MODIS channel blend (0.4,1.6,2.1 micron). Look carefully at the centers of the open cells. Quite a few have little patches of what I take to be evaporating precipitation/cloud. They actually show up slightly blue in the 3-6-7 blend.
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