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.

  • Cumulus Congestus clouds formed by orographic lift
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  • A band of layered wave cloud and distant thunderheads
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  • Sharply defined chinook arch cloud in the lee of the Rockies
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  • A rare perfect lenticular cloud with rotor: order and chaos in harmony
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  • Stratocumulus rotor cloud, a lee wave cloud aligned with mountains
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  • Rare stack of plates cloud, a dense layered wave cloud
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  • Chinook arch with three layers that formed within lee wave crest
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  • Mountain lee wave clouds, high Altocumulus patch
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  • Mountain thunderstorm clouds: Cumulonimbus with frozen anvils
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  • Mountain induced convection: large Cumulus Congestus clouds
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  • Towering Cumulus cloud that formed in lift over mountains
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  • Mountains are aiding in cloud formation at two levels
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  • Early thermals on mountain tops form cloud puffs
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  • Cloud types, TCu: mountain Cumulus Congestus clouds with showers
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  • This unusual twisted cloud is a wave cloud in the first lee wave crest
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  • Two Cumulus clouds with Stratocumulus anvils, induced by hills
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  • Mountain weather storm cloud formations: Towering Cumulus
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  • Mountains upslope flow rises into a distant storm cloud
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  • Cloud types, Cb: storm cloud regenerating over hills
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  • Air forced up a mountain slope becomes Altocumulus Castellanus
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