NASA satellite, which is studying both the surface of the Earth and its atmosphere, was able to photograph a very unusual cloud over the Caspian Sea. This specific cloud has clearly marked boundaries, and mainly such clouds are formed above the ocean, and not inside the continent, the Ninth Canal reports.
Using a satellite called Terra, scientists have observed an unusual layer-out-dosper cloud, which is an extremely unusual phenomenon for the East European region. The layer-pouring clouds mainly appear above the surface of the earth above the ocean at an altitude of about one and a half kilometers. The cloud, which photographed the Terra satellite using his Modis device, had clearly expressed boundaries, which attracted special attention of scientists.
“Such clear boundaries and such a form of this type of clouds appear when dry warm air that rises from land is faced with colder wet air over the ocean,” said Bastian Van Didenhoven from the Dutch Institute of Cosmic Research. According to him, often such clouds can be seen above the ocean off the west coast of Africa.
Researchers believe that the strange appearance of such a cloud in this region can be explained by the fact that the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest internal reservoir. Most likely, the warmer and dry air, which, perhaps, came from the Balkan Peninsula, collided with colder and wet air over the Caspian Sea.