Cloud Types

Clouds have different names depending on their shape and the height of the sky. Some clouds are close to the ground. Other things are almost as high as jet aircraft. Some are fluffy like cotton. Other people are gray

The figure below shows the location of the clouds of various types of skies. Visit the cloud gallery and see pictures of various types of clouds

The highest clouds in the atmosphere are convolution clouds, cirrus clouds, cirrus clouds. Cumulonimbus can also be very high

Scientists have recently discovered that they overestimate the adverse effects of certain clouds on solar energy. Research is usually focused on only one type of cloud, the warm low cloud. This leaves various clouds of water and ice, like huge stacked rafts. Recent studies have solved this gap, and clouds may not reflect sunlight too much, as was previously thought. On average, 70% of the cities in the world are covered with clouds. Given that the proportion of solar energy is increasing, it is important to understand how clouds affect the efficiency of solar panels. As NASA's "A train" is a collection of six satellites, researchers can estimate how much different types of cloud aerosol will have on albedo and thermal infrared radiation. Some clouds like convective clouds and ice-rich clouds have been found to reflect less solar radiation than previously thought.

The cloud composition affects important phenomena known as cloud radiation forcing in climate science. Low altitude dense clouds usually reflect solar radiation to cool the surface of the earth. A high and thin cloud warms as the solar radiation passes through and radiates the reflected radiation to the ground. In the presence of liquid clouds, especially in the Arctic winter where sunlight is not hit, they have a large influence on the surface temperature. "In winter, we saw these liquid layers," Walden said. "We accidentally caused an abnormal torrent during a very stormy winter, and the ship was right under the storm orbit, which is susceptible to these storms, fragile, smaller , So it will shorten the time to melt. "