Dave Kelsey And Stephen Webber from "Timeless" - 1987• Most interstellar clouds are made of , , and | Michel, Jane from "The World of American Folk" - 1997• from "It's Not For Me to Say" - 2004• from "This Must Be Earth" - 1970• The measurements were collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite |
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This table should not be seen as a strict or singular classification, but as an illustration of how various major cloud types are related to each other and defined through a full range of altitude levels from Earth's surface to the "edge of space | Altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus at sunrise in the California Mojave Desert, USA higher layer orange to white; lower layer grey Another variety, duplicatus closely spaced layers of the same type, one above the other , is sometimes found with cirrus of both the fibratus and uncinus species, and with altocumulus and stratocumulus of the species stratiformis and lenticularis |
Most of the sunlight that reaches the ground is absorbed, warming the surface, which emits radiation upward at longer, infrared, wavelengths.
23Conductive, radiational, and evaporative cooling require no lifting mechanism and can cause condensation at surface level resulting in the formation of | Yes, I cried throughout the majority of this film, due to the great performance by Fin Argus and the fact that the screenplay by Kara Holden hit all the right chords for me |
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Johanson, Jay-Jay from "Old Dog" - 2020• The main representative cloud types for each of these forms are , , , , and |
This thick cloud layer lacks any towering structure of its own, but may be accompanied by embedded towering cumuliform or cumulonimbiform types.
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