Sentences with phrase «non-precipitating cumulus clouds»

Steady and strong they stand even as cumulus clouds gather and lightening strikes.

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

The nearly invisible ceiling is either gray metal or cumulus clouds.

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

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

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.

Sure enough, a towering mass of cumulus clouds soon sprang up on the southern horizon.

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

Akua Asa - Awuku's studies of cumulus clouds have taken her from the Amazon treetops to the skies over Texas.

The images show filamentary and cumulus clouds, along with a good view of the planet's giant hurricane (middle).

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.

Essential to the group's work was the INDOEX observation of scarce cumulus clouds and deep layers of dark, sunlight - absorbing haze, present during 99 percent of the data - gathering phase.

While aloft, the birds were found to leverage the circular movements of upward drafts, originating under cumulus clouds, to soar to higher altitudes.

As the blaze burns, it generates updrafts that cool and condense, forming fluffy cumulus clouds.

One of the scientists working with his animation team is an expert on cumulus cloud formations.

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).

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

Arakawa, A., and W.H. Schubert, 1974: Interaction of a cumulus cloud ensemble with the large - scale environment, Part I. J. Atmos.

Macrophysical properties of continental cumulus clouds from active and passive remote sensing.

When Cassini first encountered Titan, it observed a large outburst of methane cumulus clouds over Titan's south polar region.

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

Fiona's advice lead us to Balnakeil Beach, where we were greeted with a blue sky and fluffy cumulus clouds.

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.

Some are lifted up toward towering columns of cumulus clouds, rising perhaps three miles up, where they are caught by fast - moving winds.

We're not to the point of no return yet; the sun is shining amid large cumulus clouds.

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.

For Horizon Zero Dawn, Guerrilla need a solution that can fill a sky with evolving and realistic results that closely match highly detailed reference images which represent high altitude cirrus clouds and all of the major low level cloud types, including thick billowy cumulus clouds.

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.

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

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.

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.

The G - 1 flight measurements will provide information on orographic cumulus clouds and deep convective systems.

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.

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

Layered above our humid cumulus clouds that don't turn into rain.

I have identified that you don't understand the key role for convective cumulus clouds, and until you get a grip on that that any talk of lapse rates will make no sense.

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

Science threatens to intrude on the ECS issue; see Gray's recent publication on the mechanism of cumulus clouds and their effect on Water Vapour at altitude: http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Includes/Documents/Publications/gray2012.pdf.

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.

Both cumulonimbus (thunderstorms) and cumulus clouds represent condensing circulation, otherwise there wouldn't be clouds.

Around each thunderstorm or cumulus cloud, there is an area of downwelling air.

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.

Although the later CM5B model scores marginally less well on your KL divergence measure, it has improved representation of the convective boundary layer and cumulus clouds, of tropical SW CRF and of mid-level cloud coverage.

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

And cumulus clouds not only reflect solar radiation back into space but also produce rain.

This type of precipitation is very common from shallow cumulus clouds over tropical oceans.