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.
Not exact matches
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 INDOEX.
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).
Tara Donovan creates an
cumulus cloud out of Styrofoam cups; Teresita Fernández cuts soft, moss - like patterns
into sharp metal; Barbara Gallucci conflates garden furniture with the nearby hedge, each moulding the landscape to their own experiences.
Layered above our humid
cumulus clouds that don't turn
into rain.
And
cumulus clouds not only reflect solar radiation back
into space but also produce rain.
«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.
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).
The observations showed that when the usual shallow
cumulus clouds give way to the MJO's towering cumulonimbus storms, radiant heat trapped by
clouds and moisture gradually warms a deeper column of the lower atmosphere while the tops of the storms radiate heat
into space, cooling the upper troposphere.
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.
[Technically speaking, it is caused by increased convective activity whereby
cumulus clouds carry latent heat from the surface of the tropical ocean
into the upper troposphere.
Do as I did and go outside to observe slow moving
cumulus clouds as they prepare to rain — they get much darker underneath because less light gets
into the top!
As these
cumulus convective
clouds grow taller,
cloud water droplets collide and combine
into raindrops and fall out of the
cloud or continue to rise until they freeze
into ice crystals and form cirrus
clouds.