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Cloud Streets and Ice in the Barents Sea

Cool air blowing southward across the sea ice and over the comparatively warmer open water produced long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jeff Schmaltz, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published March 30, 2018
Data acquired March 15, 2018

Source:
Aqua > MODIS
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response