THE KELVIN HELMHOLTZ CLOUD!!

WAVE CLOUD!

• Also known as the billow cloud
• Found in the upper and middle laters if the atmosphere

MORE INFO!

• Very rare
• Causes turbulence in a plane
• Water
• Top layer moving faster then the bottom layer

BILLOW CLOUD

• Most likely to occur in the morning
• Made out if water vapor

LORD KELVIN!

• British physicist
• Was a prodigy
• "You can understand perfectly, if you give your mind to it"

Hermann von Helmholtz!

• German physicist
• Worked in math and science

Fun facts!!

• in Van Gogh's famous painting "The Starry Night"
• Found on the sun, Saturn bands, Jupiter
• atmospheric instability

Citations
“Kelvin-Helmoltz Clouds: Rolling Waves in the Sky (PHOTOS).” The Weather Channel, weather.com/science/news/kelvin-helmholtz-billow-wave-clouds-20130815.

Oblack, Rachelle. “What Is a Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud?” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/kelvin-helmholtz-clouds-3443792.

olympex.atmos.washington.edu/publications/2018/JAS18_Barnes-etal_KH-Waves.p...

Citations
Luce, Hubert, et al. “Observations of Kelvin‐Helmholtz Instability at a Cloud Base with the Middle and Upper Atmosphere (MU) and Weather Radars.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Wiley-Blackwell, 9 Oct. 2010, agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2009JD013519.

Williams, L. Pearce. “Hermann Von Helmholtz.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 15 Nov. 2017, www.britannica.com/biography/Hermann-von-Helmholtz.

Picture Citations
andyrussell.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/kelvin-helmholtz.jpg.

“Clouds That Look like Ocean Waves.” EarthSky, earthsky.org/earth/kelvin-helmholzt-