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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A [[cloud]] that forms in the rising branches of mountain waves and occupies the crests of the waves.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The most distinctive are the sharp-edged, lens-, or almond-shaped [[lenticular]] clouds, but a variety of [[stratocumulus]], [[altocumulus]], and [[cirrocumulus]] forms appear in both the main, vertically propagating waves and in the lee waves. <br/>''See'' [[mountain wave]], [[foehn cloud]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A [[cloud]] that forms in the rising branches of mountain waves and occupies the crests of the waves.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The most distinctive are the sharp-edged, lens-, or almond-shaped [[lenticularis|lenticular]] clouds, but a variety of [[stratocumulus]], [[altocumulus]], and [[cirrocumulus]] forms appear in both the main, vertically propagating waves and in the lee waves. <br/>''See'' [[mountain wave]], [[foehn cloud]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:28, 25 April 2012
mountain-wave cloud
A cloud that forms in the rising branches of mountain waves and occupies the crests of the waves.
The most distinctive are the sharp-edged, lens-, or almond-shaped lenticular clouds, but a variety of stratocumulus, altocumulus, and cirrocumulus forms appear in both the main, vertically propagating waves and in the lee waves.
See mountain wave, foehn cloud.
See mountain wave, foehn cloud.
