I captured this rare cloud formation just as the sun was about to rise above the horizon this morning. It is rare because it usually caused by wind shear (as upper winds travels faster than surface wind, and a cloud layer gets caught up in a shear-line). Usually it only lasts a minute or two, hence the rarity of it.
While the one in this photo isn... See more't the most perfect example of kelvin-helmholtz wave clouds (or KH clouds), this is pretty close. And it's nice that it coincided with a lush sun rise anyway.
The photo has been completey un-processed - straight out of the box (apart from the crop and border, of course).
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud
I captured this rare cloud formation just as the sun was about to rise above the horizon this morning. It is rare because it usually caused by wind shear (as upper winds travels faster than surface wind, and a cloud layer gets caught up in a shear-line). Usually it only lasts a minute or two, hence the rarity of it.
While the one in this photo isn... See more't the most perfect example of kelvin-helmholtz wave clouds (or KH clouds), this is pretty close. And it's nice that it coincided with a lush sun rise anyway.
The photo has been completey un-processed - straight out of the box (apart from the crop and border, of course).
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