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| Keywords: outdoor sea water ocean wave Amazing picture of “cloud streets” off the Northern Coast of Australia over the Timor Sea. Cloud streets are simply long, roughly parallel lines of cumulus clouds that commonly form when cool air at the surface with a temperature inversion aloft flows over relatively warm water. The air at the surface picks up moisture as it goes over the water and warms, causing it to rise until it hits the inversion. Once the air hits the inversion, it splits into different directions, and the air sinks, rolling back over on itself in a cylindrical cycle. This is hard to visualize, but search “convective current” online, and that’s the same sort of movement that’s happening here. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=8838... Amazing picture of “cloud streets” off the Northern Coast of Australia over the Timor Sea. Cloud streets are simply long, roughly parallel lines of cumulus clouds that commonly form when cool air at the surface with a temperature inversion aloft flows over relatively warm water. The air at the surface picks up moisture as it goes over the water and warms, causing it to rise until it hits the inversion. Once the air hits the inversion, it splits into different directions, and the air sinks, rolling back over on itself in a cylindrical cycle. This is hard to visualize, but search “convective current” online, and that’s the same sort of movement that’s happening here. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=8838... | ||||
