Sentences with phrase «like cirrus clouds»
Their relatively good spectral resolution makes infrared sounders very useful for the determination of cloud properties (day and night), and their coarse spatial resolution has less effect on clouds with large spatial extents like cirrus clouds.
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High - altitude clouds like cirrus warm the planet by trapping heat.
Small details, like the tiny knobs of yellow popping out of the mist in «Profile (Orb)» (2015), seem to blossom into revelations, enticing you to peer more deeply into the surface, as if the picture plane were an aerial view high above cirrus clouds, offering hazy glimpses of the Earth below.
High cirrus clouds may occur in long feather - like streaks.
What I like about this approach is that it can be matched to observational data on humidity, ice extent, cloud extent and type (low, cooling clouds and high cirrus clouds that can exert a warming effect).
Depending on how much moisture is in the air, contrails can be long - lived, spreading out to look more like the wispy cirrus clouds made by Nature.
The idea, Lohmann said, is to inject solid particles, like desert dust, into the atmosphere at spots slightly lower than where cirrus clouds would naturally form.
«If cirrus clouds behave like a blanket around the Earth, you're trying to get rid of that blanket,» Lohmann, a professor of experimental atmospheric physics at ETH Zurich, told Live Science.