Von Karman vortices south of the Aleutian Islands
AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 0.86 µm visible channel data (above) revealed a pair of von Karman vortices streaming southward from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska on 14 April 2011. In this 2-image comparison, note that the cloud features were moving, but the ice in the Bering Sea remained stationary.An... Read More