Lee waves provide a possibility for gliders to gain altitude when soaring.
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These clouds appear most often in formations of orographic origin, the result of lee waves, in which cases they remain nearly stationary with respect to the terrain (standing cloud), but they also occur in regions without marked orography.
A wave created by the action of gravity on density variations in the stratified atmosphere. A generic classification for lee waves, mountains waves, and many other waves that form in the atmosphere.
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The first category includes both direct effects, such as forced lifting and vertically propagating waves, and indirect effects, such as upstream blocking and lee waves.
A generic classification for lee waves, mountains waves, and many other waves that form in the atmosphere.GraybodyA hypothetical "body" that absorbs some constant fraction of all electromagnetic radiation incident upon it.
 See also: Cloud, Wind, Air, Clouds, Meteorology
  
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