Kelvin-Helmholtz instability creates beautiful wave-like cloud patterns ...

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Kelvin-Helmholtz instability creates beautiful wave-like cloud patterns, or billow clouds. Different layers of the atmos
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability creates billow clouds. Different layers of the with air moving at different speeds, turbulence can cause a wave pattern,

beautiful wave-like cloud patterns, or atmosphere can have different densities causing turbulence between layers. This similar to ripples in water.