Sentences with phrase «on cumulus cloud»

They will identify possible sources limiting accurate depiction of the MJO in models that rely on cumulus cloud representations.

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

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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.

The first closeup pictures of the planet's atmosphere reveal peculiar threadlike clouds and puffy cumulus ones, plus the giant hurricane first spotted on Saturn in 2008 (SN: 11/8/08, p. 9).

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.

When the CLIMAP data proved to be wrong, and was replaced by more reliable estimates showing a substantial tropical surface temperature drop, Lindzen had to abandon his then - current model and move on to other forms of mischief (first the «cumulus drying» negative water vapor feedback mechanism, since abandoned, and now the «Iris» effect cloud feedback mechanism).

The initial LASSO implementation on the Cumulus cluster will be for ARM's Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma and will focus on high - resolution model simulations of shallow clouds driven by ensembles of forcing inputs.

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

Cloud types include Cirrus Stratus Cumulus 10 - 15 min vocabulary review (students are given the vocabulary to copy down from powerpoint) 10 - 20 min Gallery walk where students must decide what cloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripCloud types include Cirrus Stratus Cumulus 10 - 15 min vocabulary review (students are given the vocabulary to copy down from powerpoint) 10 - 20 min Gallery walk where students must decide what cloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripcloud is in the picture or what cloud is on the slide by reading the descripcloud is on the slide by reading the description.

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.

A gathering of black plastic rulers form a cloud on the verge of saturation, right before the Cumulus ruptures and it starts to rain.

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

Specific moments of Hassabi's dance transport me to Cunningham's 1968 work, RainForest, where the performers enact animalistic movements on the stage floor, as Andy Warhol's silver Mylar clouds float, hover, and move in cumulus formations.

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.

SPENCER FINCH Cloud (cumulus fractus, Massachusetts, E.D.) 2014 Scotch tape on paper 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.

Mix the three in different quantities and you can get clouds as different as a black snow - making giant and a cute puffy cumulus with a smile on it's side.

When the CLIMAP data proved to be wrong, and was replaced by more reliable estimates showing a substantial tropical surface temperature drop, Lindzen had to abandon his then - current model and move on to other forms of mischief (first the «cumulus drying» negative water vapor feedback mechanism, since abandoned, and now the «Iris» effect cloud feedback mechanism).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«The Challenge of Identifying Controls on Cloud Properties and Precipitation Onset for Cumulus Congestus Sampled During MC3E.»

Well, you can guess it based on the type of clouds — in zones of high pressure the dominant cloud type are the stratus family — thin, layered clouds, that absorb far less energy than cumulus clouds, and can dramatically increase albedo, therefore act as climate coolers.

Panelist, «Cirrus, Stratus and Cumulus: Three Perspectives on Cloud Computing,» Compliance Week Web Seminar, March 23, 2011

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.