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Archive: Tue Jan 2024

Standing waves downwind of the Hawai’ian Islands

Upper-level water vapor imagery, above, shows the development of standing waves in the lee of the Hawai’ian islands. (The waves were also apparent in mid-level and low-level water vapor imagery). Wave development as shown above requires a perturbation in the vertical — achieved by southwesterly flow in the atmosphere encountering... Read More