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June 6, 2011
Cape Cod almost looks like an elf's slipper with this orientation in the sunglint. The sunglint also reveals other features such as shipwakes, calmer sea surfaces (the darker areas) and internal waves which are waves traveling along a layer of denser water many tens of feet below the surface.
Topics:
Environment, Geography of Massachusetts, Water waves, fish, Hospitality Recreation, Convective available potential energy, Wind wave, Physical oceanography, Cod, New England, Physical geography, cape Cod
