Location
Muenchen
(Munich), Germany . Date
17. July 2009 07:20 CEST
To the
courtesy of
Dr. Robert Goler
Meteorologisches Institut
München (web camera
picture). |
Morning
Glory
Type
Cloud in
Germany
Introduction
In
July
,17,
2009 I
heard a
short
report
in BR5
news in my
car
radio about a
rare
cloud
phenomena
in
the
south of
Germany.
Immediately
I had a
look at
the
Bayerischer
Rundfunk
website
. I
found an
article
named
Seltene
Wolke
walzt
über
Bayern
hinweg,
I
translate
:
"A Rare Cloud rolls over Bavaria
Friday morning, 7:18 [MEST] : A thick, grey roll appears on the horizon of
Munich
and
rolls in
breathtaking
speed
over the
town and
forward
over
Bavaria.We
asked
our
Meteorologist
were
this
Roll
Cloud
came
from,
and what
is so
special
with it.
....
The
spetacular
grey
roll was
a so
called
"Roll
Cloud",
we call
it [in
Germany]
also "Böenwolke"
or
Wolkenwalze.
It is
typical
for this
type of
cloud,
that it
seems to
rotate
about a
horizontal
axis,
completely
isolated
from
other
clouds (
see
Bayerischer
Rundfunk
picture
).
.......
Roll
clouds
develop
out of a
thunderstorm
front
like
that
approaching
Baden
Wuerttemberg
and
Bavaria
on
Friday.
When
suddenly
precipitaion
begins
in the
original
storm
cloud
the air
masses
are
cooled
so
heavily
that
they
descend
.
Thereby
they
lift the
warm and
humid
air
masses
which
approach
the
thunderstorm.
A
rolling
motion
occurs
with
extreme
thermals
and the
cloud
starts
to roll
"
Interestingly
in a
similar
report
of the
newspaper
Muenchner
Merkur
this
cloud
phenomena
is
called a
"Morning
Glory" .
I
translate:
" A Rare
Cloud
rolls
over
Bavaria
[!]
A cloud
fascinates
Bavaria.
On
Friday
morning
a
"Morning
Glory"
could be
seen in
he sky,
a very
rare
Cloud
phemomena,
that is
found
mainly
in
Australia."
I was a bit
surprised,
that this
event until
now (
22
July )was
not treated
in German
weather
forums or
meteological
websites in
more detail.
At least
just when I
wrote this I
found this
article
Morning
Glory in
Wetter24
website
dated
22.07.06:16.
So I decided
to do some
own research
and by this
occasion
started my
Clouds
website,
which has
been planned
for years.
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First goal
is to gather
all
available
photographs
of this
July, 17 ,
2009 event
in southern
Germany.
That implies
to get the
permission
from the
photographers
to publish
the pictures
here.
To get an
idea what
type of
cloud(s)
actually
have been
observed I
think it is
necessary to
compile all
these
pictures and
information
iand put it
in one
place, which
will not be
changed
resp.
forgotten
like in
media
websites and
forums.
As well I
try to
gather
scientific
information
about roll
clouds as
well as
pictures
from
Australian
Morning
Glories and
other roll
clouds from
all over the
world to
have a
comparison.
My own
interpretation
as for now
is, that
this cloud
is of the
Mornig Glory
type [
Clarke
(1981),
Christie(1978),
dropbears.com, Rob´s
Homepage]
caused by
very large
individual
waves of air (solitary
waves)
and not a
roll cloud
closely
related to a
cumulunimbus
cloud in a local
thunderstorm
[ Ahrens
(2008) and
the BR
report left.
But I
suggest to
restrict the
name
Morning
Glory
to the
Australian
variety.
Roll cloud
originating
from
mountain-generated
waves are
decribed in
Scorer
(1972).
[cjk
22-07.2009]
Collection
of links to
July, 17
pictures
taken in
southern
Germany.
Contact to
the
copyright
holders has
just
started.
A list of
references
is given
below
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References
Books and Magazines
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Ahrens
(2008) |
Ahrens, Donald
C.
Essentials of
Meteorology.
Belmont: Thomson
Learning, 2008
.5th edition |
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Clarke
(1981) |
R.H.
Clarke, R.K.
Smith, and D.G. Reid
Monthly
Weather Review
Volume
109, Issue 8
(August 1981)
pp. 1726–1750 |
The Morning
Glory of the
Gulf of
Carpentaria: An
Atmospheric
Undular Bore |
Christie(1978) |
D. R.
Christie, K. J.
Muirhead, and A.
L. Hales
Journal of the
Atmospheric
Sciences
Volume
35, Issue 5 (May
1978) pp.
805–825 |
On Solitary
Waves in the
Atmosphere |
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Goler, R.
A., and M.
J. Reeder,
2004: , J.
Atmos Sci.,
61,
1360-1376 |
"The
generation of
the morning
glory" |
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Goler, R.
A., M. J.
Reeder, R.
K. Smith, H.
Richter, S.
Arnup, T.
Keenan, P.
May, and J.
Hacker,
2006:
Mon. Wea.
Rev., 134,
3092-3108. |
Low-level
convergence
lines over
North-eastern
Australia. Part
I: The North
Australian cloud
line |
|
Goler, R.
A., 2009, ,
Mon. Wea.
Rev., 137,
2632-2645. |
Eastward
Propagating
Undular Bores
over Cape York
Peninsula |
Scorer
(1972) |
Scorer,
Richard
Clouds of
the World
Newton Abbot
:
David&Charles,
1972
Melbourne:
Lothian,
1972 |
General
Information and
pictures about
wave clouds |
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Websites |
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American
Meteorological
Society |
Journal >
Advanced Search |
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The
Cloud
Appreciation
Society |
The Morning
Glory
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/mg1/
Movies of the
Morning Glory
Cloud
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/mgmoreinfo
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dropbears.com |
The Morning
Glory of the
Gulf of
Carpentaria
Douglas Christie
and Russell
White
First published
AOPA January
1995 |
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dropbears.com |
Morning Glory
Articles |
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Google
Pictures |
"roll cloud" |
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Morning
Glory Cloud |
http://www.morningglorycloud.com/ |
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Rob´s
Homepage |
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