Mountain effects: Stock photos showing clouds formed or shaped by the flow over high land or mountains. Mountain wave clouds formed by direct orographic lift over a high point and downstream lee waves are included, as are chinook clouds.

  • Small Cumulonimbus cloud created by mountain forced convection
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  • Cloud types, Cb: stationary orographic Cumulonimbus cloud
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  • The sun warms a mountain ridge and thermals rise to form clouds
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  • A clump of Cumulus Congestus clouds form over high land
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  • Lift over a mountain initiated the growth of this Cumulus Congestus
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  • Bands of high Altocumulus clouds in a standing lee wave pattern
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  • Bands of high Altocumulus clouds to the lee of distant mountains
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  • Clouds enhanced by mountain terrain
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  • Clouds caused by a hidden source, a mountain upwind
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  • Low Cumulus and Stratocumulus clouds rising up a mountain slope
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  • Cloud type, Sf: fog layer with Stratus Fractus clouds
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  • Bands of Altocumulus clouds with features influenced by hilly terrain
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  • Sky and earth flow together in a pure, dreamy cloudscape
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  • Mountain-induced clouds: Fractus and lenticular Altocumulus
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  • Soft Stratocumulus cloud strips condensing in flow up mountain side
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  • Clouds over mountains show vertical wind shear
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  • A long anvil plume on convection over a mountain
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  • Mountain-induced Cumulonimbus storm cloud
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  • Mid-level wave cloud band in fading skylight above high land
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  • Sandwiched wave cloud layers with small rotor cloud
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