Cumulonimbus cloud hurtling through the sky 2
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.
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- Atmospheric Sciences (875)
- Biogeosciences (576)
- Climate: Past, Present & Future (708)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (945)
- Soil System Sciences (925)
Location
- Asia (1070)
- Eastern Asia (241)
- Mongolia (23)
- Exact location (99.8081 E, 48.1846 N)
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3107 × 2043 px;
image/jpeg; 1.6 MB
Camera:
Nikon D7100
Software: Photoshop
Taken on 26
July
2015
Submitted on 15 February 2018
Licence
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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