Different cloud morphologies form via distinct dynamical mechanisms: lenticular clouds form in organized mountain-wave patterns, stratocumulus forms from cold air advecting over a warmer surface with radiative cooling at cloud top, stratiform clouds form from large-scale lifting of a stable layer, and cumuliform clouds grow via buoyant cellular convection.
Lenticular clouds form inside an organized (mountain) wave pattern (A-R). Stratocumulus develops when cold air is activated over a warmer surface, heated from below and...
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