The different orientations of the mountain barriers are seen as creating differences between the 2 regions, including the high frequency of cyclogenesis south of the European Alps and the marked ...

The rare clouds, formed by a phenomenon known as Kelvin-Helmholtz ... flowing in from the west to rise through a process known as orographic lift. Some pockets of instability developed as the ...

This relatively uncommon phenomenon is usually found in mountainous ... Thundersnow can also occur over and around mountains as a result of orographic lift. Winds blowing up the side of ...

and orographic precipitation. I joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder in January of 2008. Investigating cloud formation processes and ...

Social media users have been left awed by photos of a rare weather phenomenon in regional Queensland ... lenticular clouds are “formed as orographic waves where the air is stable and the ...