January 16, 2007

0122 gmt

The same high amount of humidity is noted by increased cloud cover over the Arctic Ocean as was noted over Antarctica. There is so much melting of the ice cap that nearly the entire Northern Hemisphere is coverd in clouds. The exception is where? The Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. The other interesting reality of this satellite picture is to note North America. The western USA has less cloud cover than the east. There are also far lower carbon dioxide levels there compared to the eastern USA. Some of the reason for that is because the Pacific Ocean doesn't produce carbon dioxide but as the wind pushes the air from the USA eastward the CO2 accumulates over distance.