But few are fortunate enough to see Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, which look like a pattern of ocean waves in the sky. Kelvin-Helmholtz ... to appear around sunrise or sunset, which is when lower ...

If you ever see these clouds for yourself, it will most likely be close to sunset or sunrise when the ... This is the same phenomenon that causes ocean waves or ripples in your pool; the ...

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But close to sunset, the clouds begin to take on their ... Her research interests span high-latitude clouds, ocean-atmosphere coupled processes, large-scale atmospheric circulation and the long ...

giving the appearance that the whole ocean is hovering only a few dozen feet above the ground. Clouds, which are plumes of condensed water vapor in the sky, come in many shapes, sizes and colors ...

But in 2014, NASA’s Terra satellite captured a near-perfect circle of clouds hovering above the Pacific Ocean. Spotted a few thousand kilometers southwest of Hawaii, this unusual ring floated ...

"The clouds were visible in the sky all day, but the colors really exploded just before sunset." The PSCs were caused by a prolonged period of unusually cold temperatures in the sky, according to ...

In the sunshine, it seemed even warmer, and although many clouds shared the sky, they did not seem to ... a blazing spectacle of a sunset. It was a warm enough day, with an official high afternoon ...

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