Clouds help regulate Earth's temperature. They bring life-giving rain to different regions. All of us at one time or another have looked to the sky and watched the clouds. Clouds can be picturesque; they can also appear menacing, even threatening, suggesting a sudden, perhaps even violent ...
If you’ve ever looked up and wondered, “What type of cloud is that?” this piece is for the budding nephologist (person who studies clouds) in you. By observing clouds, you can predict the incoming weather! See our Guide to Clouds with pictures of common cloud types in the sky and ...
The foundation consists of 10 major cloud types. In addition tocirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus clouds, there are cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus clouds. The following table places these cloud types into the four major cloud groups...
Clouds that are puffy, pillowy, or piled high are the most interesting. When they produce rain, they are referred to as cumulus or cumulonimbus (producing thunderstorms); there is that "nimbus" again. In order to get a more descriptive cloud name, meteorologists often combine two of these ...
Use Dan’s Wild Wild Weather site to research what the following clouds look like: cumulus, nimbus, stratus and cirrus. It would be helpful to have a poster resembling the clouds. There are also some beautiful pictures of clouds in the links in the site. Have students fold the blue paper...
The four cloud forms are: cirrus which are high altitude and thin; cumulus which are puffy and rounded; stratus clouds which are layered and sheet-like; and nimbus clouds that bring rain. Clouds are named for their shape and altitude. What is the definition of a cloud? Clouds are visible...
Nimbus-7 cloud and earth radiation budget data are compared in a study of the effects of clouds on the tropical radiation budget. The data consist of daily averages over fixed (500 km)2 target areas, and the months of July 1979 and January 1980 were chosen to show the effect of ...
Nimbus means “rain” or “precipitation” We have all this so instead of saying, “About midway up yonder, those are the puffy clouds,” you say, “Those are Altocumulus.” Isn’t that much more lovely? The answer is yes. So really much of naming clouds is just a combination of the...
The emergence of an inflammatory areola around a birthmark (redness in the form of a nimbus); Change of a configuration on peripheries, blurry birthmark contour; Increase in the size of a birthmark (the pigmentary spot blurs, as if “spilled”) and its consolidation; ...