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correspondence At first glance, the cloud on the left appears to be a lee Unusual Photograph of Low Level Cap Clouds wave associated with the cap cloud on the right, which Ronal d C. Grosh, Illinois State Water Survey, Ur- is over Burn t Porcupine Island. However, careful inspec- bana, III., 61801, and Edward L. Grosh, Waukesha tio n of the photograph reveals the presence of a large Public School System, Waukesha, Wis. 53186 islan d (Bald Porcupine) beneath the cloud on the left. Th e photograph below shows low cap clouds over two Since Bald Porcupine Island is farther away from the camer a and in front of the mainland, the viewer has of the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman Bay, Maine. The difficulty distinguishing it in the fog. The two much photograp h was taken by the second author while sailing off the coast of Maine between Mt. Desert Island and smalle r islands are about 1.5 k m in front of Bald Porcu- the nearby mainland on the afternoon of 19 Jun e 1977. pin e Island and are immediately adjacent to Burnt tween the surface air and the cloud air (Scorer, 1972). Porcupin e Island (foreground). Burnt http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , Volume 60 (1): 4 – Jan 1, 1979
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At first glance, the cloud on the left appears to be a lee Unusual Photograph of Low Level Cap Clouds wave associated with the cap cloud on the right, which Ronal d C. Grosh, Illinois State Water Survey, Ur- is over Burn t Porcupine Island. However, careful inspec- bana, III., 61801, and Edward L. Grosh, Waukesha tio n of the photograph reveals the presence of a large Public School System, Waukesha, Wis. 53186 islan d (Bald Porcupine) beneath the cloud on the left. Th e photograph below shows low cap clouds over two Since Bald Porcupine Island is farther away from the camer a and in front of the mainland, the viewer has of the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman Bay, Maine. The difficulty distinguishing it in the fog. The two much photograp h was taken by the second author while sailing off the coast of Maine between Mt. Desert Island and smalle r islands are about 1.5 k m in front of Bald Porcu- the nearby mainland on the afternoon of 19 Jun e 1977. pin e Island and are immediately adjacent to Burnt tween the surface air and the cloud air (Scorer, 1972). Porcupin e Island (foreground). Burnt

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Published: Jan 1, 1979

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