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Cloud Presentation By: Brandon Bond
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Basic Cloud Types Cumulus – Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms Stratus – Form in layers Cirrus – Thin, feathery, white clouds
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Cumulus Clouds Formed when warm air rises. Look like piles of cotton balls. Generally indicate fair weather but, when they get larger they produce thunderstorms. Cumulonimbus clouds produce thunderstorms
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Cirrus Clouds Form when the wind is strong. Look like thin, feathery white clouds. If they get thicker then they indicate that a change in the weather is coming.
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Stratus Clouds Formed from a gentle lifting of a large body of air into the atmosphere. Look like white layers in the sky. Weather can be foggy and/or light to heavy continuous rain. Nimbostratus clouds are dark clouds that produce the rain.
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Altitudes Clouds are also classified by the altitude at which they form. – High Begins with prefix cirro- Made up of ice crystals due to cold temperatures. – Middle Begins with the prefix alto- Made up of water drops and ice crystals – Low No prefixes. Made up of water drops.
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Cumulus clouds and sandstone rocks. Earthscience World image bank Cumulus Clouds
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Cumulus clouds over a plain. Earthscience World image bank
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Stratocumulus clouds over Monument Valley in Arizona. Earthscience World image bank
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Stratocumulus clouds over Idaho. Earthscience World image bank
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Cirrus in long parallel bands GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cirrus clouds look like white delicate feathers. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cirrocumulus Clouds http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/images/7066
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cirrocumulus cloud has small-scale ripples GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Stratus clouds over Lake Superior GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Fog is a stratus cloud. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cirrostratus clouds are a thin, transparent, whitish layer made up of ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cirrostratus clouds in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Altocumulus clouds look like waves of the sea with white and grey coloring and shadows. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Altocumulus clouds are almost always water droplets, and rarely ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Nimbostratus with mountain rain and snow showers GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Nimbostratus is a very dark and grey colored cloud layer that blots out the light of the sun. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Altostratus clouds form a bluish or greyish veil that totally or partially covers the sky. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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The light of the sun can be seen through Altocumulus clouds but there is no halo effect. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cumulonimbus are very large, heavy and dense clouds GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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Cumulonimbus clouds have a generally flat, dark surface with very tall and large tops like the shape of a massive mountain and are associated with thunder and lightning. GLOBE Cloud Exploration
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