Sentences with phrase «low cloud deck»

As if in support of this new promise, the sun began to peak out from the fog and low cloud deck as we finished the walk.

This month, NASA aircraft will begin studying a natural atmospheric laboratory off the coast of Namibia, where a layer of smoke wafts over a low cloud deck.

But in the southern hemisphere, the poleward contraction of the high clouds is balanced by an expansion of the already extensive low cloud decks, which ends up blocking more sunlight and producing a small surface cooling.

Not exact matches

High cloud decks apparently block light from individual molecules lower in their atmospheres, making it harder to identify them.

Off the coast of Namibia, for several months a year, a layer of smoke from African savanna fires drifts over a persistent deck of low clouds.

Off the coast of Namibia, for several months a year, a layer of smoke drifts over a persistent deck of low clouds.

Not long afterward, with orders to abandon ship ringing out and life jackets on, they headed out on deck and faced the scene captured in Ms. Trust's truly chilling photo above — no James Cameron special effects, just the red bow of the MV Explorer wedged on blue ice with the low sun of Antarctic spring just peaking between the horizon and a sheath of leaden clouds.

Moving away from the tropics in both hemispheres, one encounters the subtropical zone of relatively low cloud coverage, occupied by decks of broken clouds over ocean and clear desert areas over land.