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.

  • Sandwiched wave cloud layers with small rotor cloud
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  • Heavy snow shower due to orographic lift on mountain
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  • Altocumulus cloud sheet with a ribbed pattern of long billows
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  • Clouds arranged in parallel bands by a lee wave pattern
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  • Standing Wave Pattern with flat Altocumulus bands
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  • Cloud types, Ac: Altocumulus cloud lee waves
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  • Lee wave pattern, with bands of clouds in a lee wave train
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  • A Cumulonimbus regenerates, creating a vertical wall of cloud
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  • Multi-tiered wave cloud over a mountain
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  • Very rare wave cloud (lenticular Stratocumulus)
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  • Clouds showing streamlined flow over mountain
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  • Lee wave in a high sheet of Altocumulus clouds
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  • Cloud edge lacination in a lee wave pattern and wave crest
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  • Wave pattern in turbulent and smooth clouds over mountains
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  • Clouds induced on the lee-side of a mountain
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  • Chinook arch lee wave with high and low cloud layers
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  • Silvery patches of lenticular wave clouds over mountains
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  • Cloud types: multi-layered lenticular Altocumulus standing wave clouds
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  • Flowing layers of mountain wave cloud
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  • Standing wave clouds with rotor in mountains
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