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Plate 7
View north along the
eastern front of the Colorado
Rockies, showing lee-wave clouds
(
NCAR photograph by Robert
Bumpas
).
Plate 8
Radiating or dendritic
cellular (actiniform) cloud pat-
tern. These complex convective
systems some 150 to 250 km
across were only discovered
from satellite photographs. They
usually occur in groups over areas
of subsidence inversions, inten-
sified by cold ocean currents (e.g.
in low latitudes of the eastern
Pacific) (
NOAA
).
