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and day. The Detachment 11forecast facility at Cape Kennedy, Fla., was the fhtoperational site in the world to receive and process thishighest quality, real-time, expanded, simultaneous scan-ning radiometer data. Detachment 11 uses a modifiedSTttLAWRENCE RIVERLAKE ERIELON6 ISLANDCAPE KENNEDYPOPfl 35,000'OPq 5,000 FT27" C SEA TEMP CARIBBEANFIGURE l."Geographicdy gridded simultaneous NOAA 2 scanning radiometry imagery for 1400-1423 GMT, Oct. 20, 1972.538 / Vol. 101, No. 6 / Monthly Weather
and day. The Detachment 11forecast facility at Cape Kennedy, Fla., was the fhtoperational site in the world to receive and process thishighest quality, real-time, expanded, simultaneous scan-ning radiometer data. Detachment 11 uses a modifiedSTttLAWRENCE RIVERLAKE ERIELON6 ISLANDCAPE KENNEDYPOPfl 35,000'OPq 5,000 FT27" C SEA TEMP CARIBBEANFIGURE l."Geographicdy gridded simultaneous NOAA 2 scanning radiometry imagery for 1400-1423 GMT, Oct. 20, 1972.538 / Vol. 101, No. 6 / Monthly Weather
along the north-south Absarokaand Wind River Ranges, and farther east along the BigHorn Mountains. The wind at' the top of the 12,000- and14,000-ft. mountains, indicated by LND, is 40 kt. fromthe west.Another area of wave clouds (S) can be seen along theeastern edge of the frontal cloudiness approaching Wash-ington and Oregon, in the vicinity of Mt. Adams andMt. Hood.The presence of wave clouds in satellite photographsprovides the aviation forecaster with visual informationabout the mesoscale wind
along the north-south Absarokaand Wind River Ranges, and farther east along the BigHorn Mountains. The wind at' the top of the 12,000- and14,000-ft. mountains, indicated by LND, is 40 kt. fromthe west.Another area of wave clouds (S) can be seen along theeastern edge of the frontal cloudiness approaching Wash-ington and Oregon, in the vicinity of Mt. Adams andMt. Hood.The presence of wave clouds in satellite photographsprovides the aviation forecaster with visual informationabout the mesoscale wind
