Sentences with word «cumulus»

Cumulus is a word that describes a type of cloud that looks like fluffy, white cotton balls in the sky. Full definition
Asphalt Earth In the 1960s Esso Oil (now part of Exxon Mobil) proposed that coating the earth with black paving materials like asphalt would increase air temperature enough to spur formation of cumulus clouds and encourage rain.
Mostly in cumulus clouds, though, which is why the moist adiabat is important.
Stevens, D.E., A.S. Ackerman, and C.S. Bretherton, 2002: Effects of domain size and numerical resolution on the simulation of shallow cumulus convection.
Rdio's business alliance with Cumulus Media creates a major entity that straddles across broadcast and Internet audio.
This type of precipitation is very common from shallow cumulus clouds over tropical oceans.
A high ranking source at Cumulus radio told the Radio Ink that 48 out of 50 advertisers gave orders to exclude «Rush and Hannity» from their packages.
Wakayama, T., Perry, A. C. F., Zuccotti, M., Johnson, K. R., and Yanagimachi, R. Full - Term Development of Mice from Enucleated Oocytes Injected with Cumulus Cell Nuclei.
As cumulus clouds grow higher, their tops become colder.
In the center of the main gallery is a Rirkrit designed ping pong table (produced by Cumulus Studios) fabricated to be played outdoors.
A complete copy of these rules can be obtained at the offices of radio station KGO («Station»), owned and operated by Cumulus Media Holdings Inc. or one of its subsidiary companies, 750 Battery Street 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94111, during normal business hours Monday through Friday or by sending a self - addressed, stamped envelope to the above address.
I had the pleasure of meeting one particular meteorologist who keeps us in the know on everything from cumulus clouds to funnel clouds, Emily Sutton.
Yao, and D. Kim, 2015: Constraints on cumulus parameterization from simulations of observed MJO events.
It is clear that speed to market and the ability to handle scale was a goal for Cumulus for the initiative.
The simulations help illustrate the turbulent dynamics of trade cumuli in such a regime.
Xu, R.T. Cederwall, P. Bechtold, A.D. Del Genio, S.A. Klein, D.G. Cripe, S.J. Ghan, D. Gregory, S.F. Iacobellis, S.K. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J.C. Petch, D.A. Randall, L.D. Rotstayn, R.C.J. Somerville, Y.C. Sud, K. von Salzen, G.K. Walker, A. Wolf, J.J. Yio, G.J. Zhang, and M. Zhang, 2002: Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parameterizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions.
Pielke Sr., R.A., 2001: Influence of the spatial distribution of vegetation and soils on the prediction of cumulus convective rainfall.
The birds ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.
Here Becker et al. investigated the impact of convective organization on entrainment — a process in which warm, buoyant parcels of air become saturated with moisture; form cumulus clouds; and mix with cooler, drier parcels of air.
«When the rising cumulus columns meet the tropopause, or base of the stratosphere, at about 15,000 kilometers (50,000 feet), they reach a ceiling and can no longer rise buoyantly by convection.
Thick, bright, watery clouds like cumulus shield the atmosphere from incoming solar radiation by reflecting much of it back into space.
I'll be honest and admit that despite Cumulus Inc. offering meals from 7 am — 11 pm, or 8 am — 11 pm on weekends, I have not visited outside of brunch.
The links between model biases and the underlying assumptions of the shallow cumulus scheme are further diagnosed with the aid of large - eddy simulations and aircraft measurements, and by suppressing the triggering of the deep convection scheme.
«Insights from modeling and observational evaluation of a precipitating continental cumulus event observed during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment field campaign.»
Mix the three in different quantities and you can get clouds as different as a black snow - making giant and a cute puffy cumulus with a smile on it's side.
The first closeup pictures of the planet's atmosphere reveal peculiar threadlike clouds and puffy cumulus ones, plus the giant hurricane first spotted on Saturn in 2008 (SN: 11/8/08, p. 9).
To create cloned mice, the team inserted nuclei from so - called cumulus cells, which surround the ovary, into egg cells, or oocytes, without nuclei.
Earlier work, shown in the animation at top right, revealed that «intense aborption of solar energy can desiccate an optically thick stratocumulus cloud layer,» turning it into cumulus clouds.
«Factors Controlling the Vertical Extent of Fair - Weather Shallow Cumulus Clouds over Land: Investigation of Diurnal - Cycle Observations Collected at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site.»
We've followed this Supercell for 6 hours, observing its life cycle from cumulus puff to the monster mesocyclone now covering Cimarron County.
When Cumulus decided to make this commitment to voice, they looked for a partner that could help execute the implementation.
«Use of satellite derived cloud properties to quantify growing cumulus beneath cirrus clouds.»
The fifth intercomparison of the Global Water and Energy Experiment Cloud System Studies Working Group 1 is used as a vehicle for better understanding the dynamics of trade wind cumuli capped by a strong inversion.
The average cumulus cloud weighs about 1 million pounds, while a big storm cloud can exceed 2 billion pounds.
As the blaze burns, it generates updrafts that cool and condense, forming fluffy cumulus clouds.
At this point, either the clouds can dissipate into a popcorn - like formation — which is called unaggregated convection — or other cumulus clouds in the vicinity will pile onto them, forming a larger cloud cluster (aggregated convection).
Sud, Y.C., and G.K. Walker, 1999: Microphysics of clouds with the relaxed Arakawa - Schubert Cumulus Scheme (McRAS).
«Insights from modeling and observational evaluation of a precipitating continental cumulus event observed during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment field campaign.»
On my shoulder is the Cubist Cumulus Bag, which has a negative review on the site but has been wonderful for me.
In this outfit: Top: J.Crew silk tiered cami (similar style here, here and here) Skirt: Many Moods Skirt (similar here, here and here) Bag: Cubist Cumulus Bag (now $ 120) Necklace: Lucky Numbers Choker (other multi-locket necklaces here, here and here) Shoes: Wandering Platforms aka Biviel BVC053 (similar here, here and here) Bracelet: J.Crew Majesty Bracelet (similar here and here)
The Berlingo Multispace five - seat passenger van, which isn't sold in Australia, also gains two new exterior paint colours: Moka Grey and Cumulus Grey.
How are the properties and life cycles of orographically generated cumulus humilis, mediocris, and congestus clouds affected by environmental kinematics, thermodynamics, aerosols, and surface properties?
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