NASA: Pacific Ocean - Isla Socorro zone - A Swirl of Clouds over the Pacific - 08.23.13
Posted by Ricardo Marcenaro | Posted in NASA: Pacific Ocean - Isla Socorro zone - A Swirl of Clouds over the Pacific - 08.23.13 | Posted on 17:25
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Theodore von Kármán, a
Hungarian-American physicist, was the first to describe the physical
processes that create long chains of spiral eddies like the one shown
above. Known as von Kármán vortices,
the patterns can form nearly anywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by
an object. Since the atmosphere behaves like a fluid, the wing of an
airplane, a bridge, or even an island can trigger the distinctive
phenomenon.
On May 22, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua
satellite captured this natural-color image of cloud vortices behind
Isla Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. The island, which
is located a few hundred kilometers off the west coast of Mexico and the
southern tip of Baja California, is part of the Revillagigedo
Archipelago.
Satellite sensors have spotted von Kármán vortices around the globe, including off of Guadalupe Island, near the coast of Chile, in the Greenland Sea, in the Arctic, and even next to a tropical storm.
References
- NASA GES DISC Science Focus: Von Kármán Vortices. Accessed August 8, 2013.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2002, March 14) A Vortex Street in the Arctic. Accessed August 8, 2013.
- JPL History Theodore von Kármán. Accessed August 8, 2013.
- Slate (2013, April 12) The Streets Are Paved with… Vortices? Accessed August 8, 2013.
NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Adam Voiland.
- Instrument:
- Aqua - MODIS
NASA: Pacific Ocean - Isla Socorro zone - A Swirl of Clouds over the Pacific - 08.23.13
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