Wavy clouds at night
These wavy clouds arise due to small, but growing perturbances in the shear layer between two fluids with different flow velocities. This phenomenon is called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Category
Location
- Europe (3709)
- Northern Europe (869)
- Lithuania (21)
- Exact location (25.2898 E, 54.6956 N)
Tags
Colour
Image properties
3456 × 2592 px;
image/jpeg; 1.8 MB
Camera:
Panasonic DMC-TZ5
Taken on 10
March
2009
Submitted on 19 February 2014
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Florian Heinlein (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Share
Appreciate
Report