Morning glory clouds in the Bay of Carpentaria, Australia

Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 22 October 2018 from 00:22:46 to 00:25:06 UTC
Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 30 October 2018 from 00:07:07 to 00:17:37 UTC
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Sentinel-3 OLCI FR acquired on 06 November 2022 from 00:16:46 to 00:19:46 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Atmosphere, clouds, Australia
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI (08.11.2019; 15.10.2022; 22.10.2022; 06.11.2019) - Single, hundreds of kilometres-long morning glory clouds.
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The volutus extra long cloud better known as morning glory cloud is a rare phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud. The southern part of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia is the only known location where it can be observed regularly.
Fig. 2 - S3 OLCI (28.09.2021; 22.10.2018; 30.10.2018; 06.11.2022) - Morning glory clouds in the form of bands of parallel rolls.
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The wave often occurs as an amplitude-ordered series of waves forming bands of roll clouds.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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