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Tuesday 21 June 2016
Kaboom !
Couple more turbulent clouds. These ones are smaller than the last ones, same sort of turbulence but a bit more energetic in the one on the right. Since the resolution is higher than the previous sims, the small-scale turbulence doesn't decay so rapidly so they expand much more. One problem is that the simulation domain is rather limited so we can't tell exactly how large the structures end up. And though we can measure the velocity width, we can't yet measure the all-important signal to noise to tell us what we'd detect over time. That has to await the return of the resident FLASH expert.
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That's a very nice simulation. I've been creating timelapse videos of cloud turbulence at 1 frame per second with an inexpensive smartphone. https://plus.google.com/108900938699941870401/posts/JGMsTNZFPBC
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