Clouds trace out atmospheric eddies and vortices near Baja, California.
Published Sep 9, 2013
In this image, the swirling clouds known as vortex streets appear along the left edge of the image, stretching southward from Isla Guadalupe. Southeast of the vortex street, a glory, which resembles a rainbow, hovers above the cloud cover. The glory is faint but large, 200 to 300 kilometers long, along a north-south orientation.
Published Jun 22, 2007
Clouds off the Chilean coast show a unique pattern called a “von Karman vortex street.”
Published May 30, 2000
Mountain peaks slice through the clouds and air masses, creating Von Karman Vortices.
Published Nov 6, 2016
Clouds swirled in the southern Atlantic Ocean, northwest of St. Helena, in mid-November 2012.
Published Nov 25, 2012
This Valentine in the sky is the visible expression of fluid dynamics at work.
Published Feb 14, 2019
Chains of swirling clouds stream behind islands in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Published Aug 13, 2017
The Aqua satellite captured this image of von Kármán vortices downwind of Isla Socorro.
Published Aug 19, 2013
