- Orographic lift over a mountain produces wave cloud
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- Close view of a thick, white cloud layer caused by lifting and condensing air in the wave crest over a mountain (orographic lift). The low Stratocumulus cloud covers the higher elevations. It is bright against a higher, shaded mid-level cloud in the same orographic wave structure.
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