Satellite Image Shows Icebergs Creating Waves In Clouds

Geo Beats 2015-12-11

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In an image gathered via instruments onboard NASA's Terra satellite, two icebergs can be seen creating a "cloud wake" in the atmosphere.

Two icebergs that broke free of Antarctica and floated out to the Southern Ocean can be seen creating waves in the clouds. 

According to a NASA's Earth Observatory post, "'Wave clouds' occur when a higher-level air mass is forced to move up and over a large obstacle. The air mass that forms wave clouds does not have to be at the same level as the icebergs. It simply must encounter a disturbance large enough to force the air up, instead of around."

Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA, said, “You see these features over the big icebergs

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