Lesson 9: Background: Fog and Stratus

This animation of GOES-10 6.7, 10.7, 3.9 and .66 micrometer imagery shows the open and closed cells over the Pacific Ocean on 18 March 2002. The extratropical cylcone is in the occluded stage. In addition to locating open and closed cells, can you estimate the location of the polar jet, subtropical jet, and island lee lines?

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