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The nude Oceanids lie on the rock or in the water in contorted positions; a group of them circle in the sky on the right side of the picture. The water is foaming and there are dark clouds in the sky. In the background, the Titan Prometheus is chained to a cliff, a punishment given to him by Zeus after he stole fire from the gods and gave it to ...
The dark clouds over open water have long been used by polar explorers and scientists to navigate in sea ice. For example, Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his assistant Hjalmar Johansen used the phenomenon to find lanes of water in their failed expedition to the North Pole , as did Louis Bernacchi and Douglas Mawson in Antarctica.
Mesospheric noctilucent clouds over Estonia. Noctilucent clouds are thin clouds that come in a variety of forms based from about 80 to 85 kilometres (262,000–279,000 ft) and occasionally seen in deep twilight after sunset and before sunrise. [6] [7] Type 1 Veils, very tenuous stratiform; resembles cirrostratus or poorly defined cirrus. Type 2
Ship tracks can be seen as lines in these clouds over the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States, May 11, 2005. Ship tracks are clouds that form around the exhaust released by ships into the still ocean air. [1] Water molecules collect around the tiny particles from exhaust to form a cloud seed. More and more water accumulates on ...
The dark storm clouds associated with the Black nor'easter over Sydney CBD. A black nor'easter is a persistent and potentially violent north-easterly storm that occurs on the east coast of Australia, particularly from southeastern Queensland to southern New South Wales, usually between late spring and early autumn, about two days a year (or more, depending on the intensity).
The low-altitude stratus clouds that make up the June Gloom cloud layer form over the nearby ocean, and are transported over the coastal areas by the region's prevailing westerly winds. [1] The sheet-like stratus clouds are almost uniformly horizontal, covering large areas but having relatively shallow depth of 500 to 2,000 metres (1,600 to ...
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The bar of a mature tropical cyclone is a very dark gray-black layer of cloud that appears to be near to the horizon as seen from an observer preceding the approach of the storm, and is composed primarily of dense stratocumulus clouds. [1] Cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds bearing precipitation follow immediately after the passage of the wall ...