Geoscience Reference
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Plate 9
DMSP visible image of the coastal area off New England at 14:33 hours GMT, 17 February
1979. A northerly airflow averaging 10ms
-1
, with surface air temperatures of about -15°C, moves
offshore where sea-surface temperatures increase to 9°C within 250 km of the coast. Convective cloud
streets are visible, also ice in James Bay (
upper left
), and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
image courtesy of
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
) (see
Monthly Weather Review III
,
1983, p. 245).
