Cloudy Climate

doing my PhD about Arctic clouds and talking about Arctic research on YouTube ❄️ youtube.com/@cloudyclimate

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John Ross was super close to discovering the entrance to the Northwest passage, but he mistook clouds for mountains and turned his ships around. Learn more in my new Youtube video! ❄️

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In my new Youtube video, I talk about three types of strange-looking snowflakes. One of them is a special kind of graupel (not shown here; this picture is the „normal“ kind). ❄️

https://youtu.be/YPIPDKgWUU4?si=0CQwjzJXfHG0m1jJ

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Observations of real snowflakes from Ny-Alesund (Svalbard, Norway), Hyytiälä (Finland), Gothic (Colorado, USA), and on the sea ice close to the north pole (during the MOSAiC expedition). Collage of images obtained with the Video In Situ Snowfall Sensor (VISSS, Maahn, M., Moisseev, D., Steinke, I., Maherndl, N., and Shupe, M. D.: Introducing the Video In Situ Snowfall Sensor (VISSS), EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-655, 2023.); recolored.

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Is every snowflake unique? Are all snowflakes 6-sided? Who was the first to study snowflakes in a scientific sense? Here, I try to answer these and many more questions all about snowflake science. Hope you enjoy me talking about this very cool topic - cool, get it? - while recovering from a cold… :/