Sentences with phrase «like cumulus»

Like the cumulus, their emergence is temperature - regulated and is totally independent of forcing.

This show was by Jacob Hashimoto, an artist whose constructed paper installation fills the front gallery like a cumulus forest and whose multilayered installation of small, kite - or parasol - like shapes hugs the walls in the large central galleries.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

Set in Flinders Lane, Cumulus Inc.'s high ceilings and natural lighting mix a certain amount of warmth despite its industrial feel and cool long marble bar bench where I like to sit, watching the open kitchen and muse if I've got food envy or if I've ordered correctly as the Chefs work.

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.

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.

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 composition.

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

And just like the onset of the cumulus circulation, the onset of thunderstorms occurs earlier on days when it is warmer, and it occurs later (and sometimes not at all) on days that are cooler than usual.

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).

They might look fluffy and ethereal but clouds are quite heavy; the average cumulus cloud (the big white cotton - candy - like ones you see on nice days) weigh 1.1 million pounds.

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