Cumulonimbus cloud hurtling through the sky
by Steffen Schweizer, Soil Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany, Freising, Germany
This towered cloud rushed past our camp at the Khorgo volcano in Mongolia. They form when a powerful upward air current quickly carries up water vapor.
Image updated: https://imaggeo.egu.eu/view/13143/
Categories
- Atmospheric Sciences (874)
- Climate: Past, Present & Future (706)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (944)
Location
- Asia (1063)
- Eastern Asia (241)
- Mongolia (23)
- Exact location (99.8081 E, 48.1846 N)
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3147 × 2098 px;
image/jpeg; 1.6 MB
Camera:
Nikon D7100
Software: Photoshop
Taken on 26
July
2015
Submitted on 15 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Steffen Schweizer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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