Sentences with phrase «cumulus clouds in»

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).

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).

To understand groups of droplets, Shaw and the NCAR team flew airplanes through fluffy, cottonball cumulus clouds in Wyoming and Colorado.

Unlike other birds, most of which avoid clouds because of their turbulence, frigatebirds seem to seek them out to ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.

The birds ride on the strong updrafts under cumulus clouds in the open ocean to gain altitude.

Not exact matches

But one thing is constant: their melt - in - your - mouth texture and distinctive, attractive appearance: round and white as a cumulus cloud.

Elsewhere in the tropics, however, nonprecipitating cumulus clouds dominate the landscape.

CUMULUS CAUSALITY In «A Formula for Economic Calamity,» by David H. Freedman, David Colander of Middlebury College asserts that climate models often have no terms to account for the effects of clouds.

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).

In the baseline simulations, cumulus convection arose an hour into the exercise and generated clouds that very much resembled in appearance at least those photographed during INDOEIn the baseline simulations, cumulus convection arose an hour into the exercise and generated clouds that very much resembled in appearance at least those photographed during INDOEin appearance at least those photographed during INDOEX.

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.

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.

They will identify possible sources limiting accurate depiction of the MJO in models that rely on cumulus cloud representations.

Parameterizations of cloud microphysics, cumulus clouds, and aerosol - cloud interactions in regional / global climate models

The initial LASSO implementation on the Cumulus cluster will be for ARM's Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma and will focus on high - resolution model simulations of shallow clouds driven by ensembles of forcing inputs.

The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) experiment in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multi-scale models can be imprCloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) experiment in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multi-scale models can be imprcloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multi-scale models can be improved.

Small cumulus clouds derived from an ancient Tibetan textile are jacquard woven in tonal velvet on our intriguing pillow cover.

Cloud types include Cirrus Stratus Cumulus 10 - 15 min vocabulary review (students are given the vocabulary to copy down from powerpoint) 10 - 20 min Gallery walk where students must decide what cloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripCloud types include Cirrus Stratus Cumulus 10 - 15 min vocabulary review (students are given the vocabulary to copy down from powerpoint) 10 - 20 min Gallery walk where students must decide what cloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripcloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripcloud is on the slide by reading the description.

The mass of cumulus clouds had increased in bulk more rapidly than any spawning storm she could remember in her eighteen years monitoring and forecasting tropical hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean with the National Underwater and Marine Agency Hurricane Center.

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.

At Mary Boone you exhibited three works; the smaller room held two pristine examples of past work: Bridal Supernova (2006), one of the Exploding Couture series, which looks at first glance like a lotus blossom transforming into a cumulus cloud, and Portable CatFight (2007), which encloses two cats, strung out from actual skeletons, that circle each other in mid-air with claws and fangs bared.

As a Cumulus cloud constantly verges on collapse, Marx's subjects border between form and formlessness, always rich in associative and connotative density.

Specific moments of Hassabi's dance transport me to Cunningham's 1968 work, RainForest, where the performers enact animalistic movements on the stage floor, as Andy Warhol's silver Mylar clouds float, hover, and move in cumulus formations.

Cumul, as in, cumulus, is a reference to the forms of rounded clouds.

In a painting like «Lovesexy» (2000), for example, sharply defined indecipherable symbols loom in and out of clean cumulus clouds on a fuchsia - pink background, while in «As I run and run, happiness comes closer» (2008), violent and brutal brushstrokes seethe over a dark background, engulfing the work's cheery little stars and leaving the sensation of a seething Hieronymus Bosch compositioIn a painting like «Lovesexy» (2000), for example, sharply defined indecipherable symbols loom in and out of clean cumulus clouds on a fuchsia - pink background, while in «As I run and run, happiness comes closer» (2008), violent and brutal brushstrokes seethe over a dark background, engulfing the work's cheery little stars and leaving the sensation of a seething Hieronymus Bosch compositioin and out of clean cumulus clouds on a fuchsia - pink background, while in «As I run and run, happiness comes closer» (2008), violent and brutal brushstrokes seethe over a dark background, engulfing the work's cheery little stars and leaving the sensation of a seething Hieronymus Bosch compositioin «As I run and run, happiness comes closer» (2008), violent and brutal brushstrokes seethe over a dark background, engulfing the work's cheery little stars and leaving the sensation of a seething Hieronymus Bosch composition.

SPENCER FINCH Cloud (cumulus fractus, Massachusetts, E.D.) 2014 Scotch tape on paper 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.

This estimate is generous to the GCR hypothesis, since the cumulus - to - water albedo shift exaggerates the true change of low clouds, and I need bond albedos in my calculation and I'm using visible albedos.

If we allow that all those clouds are cumulus with an albedo of 0.8 and that they block water with an albedo of 0.1, that translates to a change in global albedo of 0.014.

Once activated, the instability shown in the Köhler curve implies that the condensational growth takes over and the newly formed cloud droplet quickly reaches the size of few microns, as the ones we find in shallow cumuli.

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.

There may be a cap for convection, but latent heating in a growing cumulus cloud (forced locally by... whatever) may eventually allow it to mushroom.

For orographic cumulus clouds, the G - 1 measurements will characterize in - cloud dynamics, microphysics, and aerosols, as well as the environmental variability around the clouds focusing on conditions upstream and downstream of clouds at multiple altitudes in the vicinity of the AMF1 site.

The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multiscale models can be imprCloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of north - central Argentina is designed to improve understanding of cloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multiscale models can be imprcloud life cycle and organization in relation to environmental conditions so that cumulus, microphysics, and aerosol parameterizations in multiscale models can be improved.

«How much warmer it will get depends on what happens to cumulus clouds like those Karen was interested in.

Mostly in cumulus clouds, though, which is why the moist adiabat is important.

The typical enhancement of rainfall and updraft motion in deep cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds within heavy raining meso - scale disturbance areas acts to increase the return flow mass subsidence in the surrounding broader clear and partly cloudy regions (Figure 8).

In UP, the cloud - resolving arrays have been upgraded to include sufficient internal resolution to explicitly generate the turbulent eddies that form marine stratocumulus and trade cumulus clouds.

Cumulus clouds will have the same effect, but more in balance with the positive effects, resulting in less negative net feedback, but with the same result, much lower climate sensitivity than the IPCC would have you believe.I realize that climate sensitivity is not usually discussed as a local phenomenon, but it should be, since it is the integral of all local phenomena.

Instead of the regime of individual «doughnut - shaped» circulation around each thunderstorm and cumulus cloud, it has all been replaced by long cylinders of air which sink in the valleys between the serried rows of thunderstorms, and rise up through their centers.

In - depth analysis reveals that the model's shallow cumulus convection scheme tends to significantly under - produce clouds during the times when shallow cumuli exist in the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the daIn - depth analysis reveals that the model's shallow cumulus convection scheme tends to significantly under - produce clouds during the times when shallow cumuli exist in the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the dain the observations, while the deep convective and stratiform cloud schemes significantly over-produce low - level clouds throughout the day.

Simulation of cumulus clouds under conditions observed during the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field cacumulus clouds under conditions observed during the Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field caCumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign.

«The authors demonstrate that model estimates of climate sensitivity can be strongly affected by the manner through which cumulus cloud condensate is converted into precipitation in a model's convection parameterization, processes that are only crudely accounted for in GCMs.

The physical model I have in mind for this negative WV feedback is based on a proposal of Prof. William Gray (Colorado State University), who pictured cumulus clouds carrying moisture into the UT, but occupying only a small area; the remaining (and much larger) area experiences descending air («subsidence»)-- hence drying.

Thirty years later, the relevance of this study has been realized in the development of stochastic approaches to represent cumulus convection and its upscale energy transports, and in the emerging efforts to resolve these multi-scale processes in atmospheric simulations at the cloud system - resolving scale (approx. 1 km).

Cumulus clouds will have the same effect, but more in balance with the positive effects, resulting in less negative net feedback, but with the same result, much lower climate sensitivity than the IPCC would have you believe.

In fact, only broad blankets of CUMULUS clouds trap heat under the context that your NASA research team's article suggests.

As to the effect mentioned in your comment, as I understand it, cumulus clouds reflect infrared radiation back into space while cirrus clouds catch infrared radiation leaving earth and reflect it back to earth.

Well, you can guess it based on the type of clouds — in zones of high pressure the dominant cloud type are the stratus family — thin, layered clouds, that absorb far less energy than cumulus clouds, and can dramatically increase albedo, therefore act as climate coolers.

When there is a reduction in tropical temperature for any reason, not just volcanoes, cumulus clouds form later, say at noon instead of their usual 11:00.

As shown in my submission to the UKs AR5 review and in «The Nile Climate Engine», the Atlantic provides every criteria for CC and AGW via a reduction in the mass of Easterly Wave Strata - Cumulus cloud mass — hence increased insolation.