BajaNews - 7-10-2011 at 11:18 PM
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/features-2/world-from-spac...
By Mark Dunphy
Sun Jul 10
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the eastern Pacific and Baja California,
Mexico, on Saturday 9 July 2011.
According to Irish Weather Online’s Fergal Tierney: “The striking cloud formations featured in this satellite image relate to a sheet of
stratocumulus, caused by an inversion just above a turbulent boundary layer. Without the inversion, the clouds would develop further into cumulus
mediocris or congestus, but the inversion puts a cap on their development and instead causes them to spread out horizontally.”
“The cloud pattern around the island (Isla Guadalupe), located to the west of Baja California, is a Von Karman vortex pattern, caused by the
interaction of the island with the northerly flow”, Fergal added.
Just a few hundreds miles south of Guadalupe, Tropical Storm Calvin continued to weaken during Saturday.
[Edited on 7-11-2011 by BajaNews]
Mexitron - 7-11-2011 at 06:52 AM
Pretty!