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.
Taken on 10
March
2009
Submitted on 19 February 2014
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- Europe (3216)
- Northern Europe (746)
- Lithuania (20)
- Exact location (25.2898 E, 54.6956 N)
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cloud, kelvin, helmholtz, fluid, shear, instability
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Credit: Florian Heinlein (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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