This striking satellite photo shows multiple examples of a rare meteorological phenomenon, known as "von Kármán vortices," swirling off at least six different islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Very ...

A research team led by the University of Minnesota recently launched a project that aims to study cloud vortices on Jupiter’s atmosphere. The team is relying on the general public to contribute ...

The thunderstorms rolling through Lower Michigan this morning had some interesting cloud features. A few comments mentioned ‘scary clouds." Here are my thoughts about how to tell severe storm clouds ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A classification scheme for cloud vortices recorded on hemispheric digital mosaics southward of 20S during a period of some 550 days is used ...

A massive UFO-Shaped cloud appeared in the sky over Kota Kinabalu on Sunday (Nov 16). A PECULIAR cloud formation resembling a ...

This paper is dedicated to the memory of E. G. ("Ted") Edie, formerly of the New Zealand Meteorological Service, who encouraged the writer and other synoptic meteorologists in the pre-satellite era to ...

How would you describe new NOAA satellite images of cloud formations known as ‘von Karman vortices?’ Stunning? Mesmerizing? Spellbinding? The imagery, shown in the video above, was captured May 8, ...

NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the South Atlantic Ocean on November 15, 2012, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument flying aboard to capture this true-color image ...

The imagery, shown in the video above, was captured May 8, 2021 over Guadalupe Island, 150 miles west of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. The formations “occur when the prevailing wind is diverted ...