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.

  • Lacinated edge of an Altocumulus lee wave cloud
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  • This chinook arch cloud began as supercooled water droplets
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  • Altostratus chinook arch clouds form in mountain lee wave crests
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  • Wave clouds over mountains in winter
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  • These clouds hugging a mountain top are winter orographic clouds
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  • Mountain wave clouds from air condensing in wave crest
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  • Orographic lift over a mountain produces wave cloud
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  • Clouds form as air lifts in flow over mountains
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  • Blanket of cloud on mountain in winter
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  • Multi-tiered orographic clouds over mountains
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  • Mountain wave cloud over a lonely highway
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  • Clouds from orographic lift (point source convection)
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  • 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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