Sikora, T.D., G.S. Young, E. O'Marr, R.F. Garparovic, 2001

Anomalous cloud lines over the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 27, 320-327

Abstract

This exploratory research note develops the basis for two hypotheses concerning the mechanism responsible for the anomalous cloud lines often seen in Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer imagery of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. One explanation is that these cloud lines are forced in the same manner as are Great Lakes shore-parallel cloud bands. Namely, they result from converging land-breeze circulations. An alternate, albeit more speculative, explanation is that at least some of the cloud lines in question are ship tracks.