GigaLES cross section

I haven't posted in a while, but I've done a lot of work leading up to the Workshop on Physics in Weather and Climate Models hosted at Caltech by JPL's Center for Climate Sciences and the Keck Institute for Space Studies. I learned so much at this workshop, it will take a bit of work just to put together everything I've worked on and learned and been writing about these past few weeks, but for now, here is an animated post showing a cross-section of MSE in the GigaLES, each frame is 5 minutes apart. Here are links to versions of the following figures running slower so more details can be observed.

http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~glenn/cross_sec/ysec1_500.gif
http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~glenn/cross_sec/ysec1_w_500.gif

Note a few details like: The horizontal : vertical scale is squished, features are about 4 times more skinny than a 1:1 image,  the time in hours:mins is displayed in the top left corner, the buoyancy oscillations at the top of the MSE frame from 7:00 to 8:00 hours, the dramatic increase in MSE that rising blobs experience above the freezing level (~5km) due to latent heat of fusion increasing the temperature, therefore increasing the buoyancy, and the vertical velocity, shown in the animation below the MSE frame.