What is Kelvin Helmholtz?
Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble ocean waves rolling at equal intervals and are one of the rare types. It is believed that these clouds with their mesmerizing appearance inspired the swirls we see in Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night." So, how does this type of cloud form? They arise when two different layers of air in our atmosphere move at different speeds and occur when there is a strong vertical shear between the two air currents, causing the winds to blow faster at upper levels than at lower levels.
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A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
Kesilmiş alçak basınç sistemi, ana atmosferik dolaşım sistemlerinden tamamen izole olmuş bir alçak basınç sistemidir....
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
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