Spiraling Cloud Patterns Over Guadalupe Island

Spiraling Cloud Patterns Over Guadalupe Island

Long, spiraling cloud patterns in the sky, von Kármán vortices, arise when winds are diverted around a blunt, high-profile area, often an island rising from the ocean. The alternating direction of rotation in the air forms swirls in the clouds.

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Bellingham, Wash., Aug. 19, 2014—Attend SPIE Remote Sensing 2014, an important European conference focused on giving international researchers and scientists access to the most recent satellite-based imaging systems and the data generated by them, as well as...

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