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.

  • Cumulonimbus cloud formed by orographic lift over mountains
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  • Lenticular Altocumulus cloud from orographic lift over mountains
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  • Orographic convection: Cumulus clouds bubbling over mountains
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  • Altocumulus cloud band in a mountain lee wave pattern
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  • Orographic clouds: Stratocumulus patches in mountain region
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  • Lenticular clouds due to a mountain standing lee wave pattern
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