Stealing beauty: incredible clouds Kelvin-Helmholtz

These are called amazing, like waves of the sea of clouds in honor of the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and British physicist Lord Kelvin.

Scientists first described the instability arising at the interface of two media. Cloud Kelvinhelmholtz, or wavy clouds are formed when warm, less concentrated layer of air is located above the layer of cool, dense air. The upper layer of air moves faster than the bottom. If the wind shear between them is strong enough, the boundary layers of the formation of small vortices, which looked like something out of van Gogh's paintings.

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