{"id":66950,"date":"2018-01-15T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T05:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=66950"},"modified":"2018-01-21T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:09:55","slug":"science-review-of-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/science-review-of-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review of Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/h3>\n

Clouds on Earth form in the atmosphere from condensed water vapor.\u00a0 They are classified both by their location in the troposphere and by their appearance.\u00a0 Some clouds are low-level, with bases closest to the surface; others are mid-level; and others are at the highest levels of the troposphere.\u00a0 There are over 90 different types and subtypes of clouds.<\/p>\n

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Troposphere<\/h3>\n

The troposphere is the part of the atmosphere where weather takes place.\u00a0 On Earth, it is the lowest level of the atmosphere.\u00a0 It extends roughly from 0 to 12 km above the surface, and contains almost all of the water vapor.\u00a0 Temperature differences between the highest levels of the troposphere and the surface create convection currents.\u00a0 Those currents produce wind.<\/p>\n

Low-level Clouds<\/h3>\n

The lowest-level clouds are from the surface to about 2000 meters (6500 ft.).\u00a0 Surface clouds are known as fog or mist.\u00a0 Stratus clouds are flat clouds that make up most blanketing cloud cover, cumulus clouds at the lowest level are fluffy and detached, and stratocumulus clouds carry the most precipitation.<\/p>\n

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Mid-Level Clouds<\/h3>\n

Mid-level clouds are usually between 2000 meters (6500 feet) and 7000 meters (23,000 feet).\u00a0 These include altostratus and altocumulus clouds.\u00a0 The thickest clouds are those that produce the most precipitation.\u00a0 If the clouds are not quite as thick and heavy, most of the precipitation remains in the sky and does not reach the ground.\u00a0 Mid-level clouds are hard to tell apart by satellite images alone.<\/p>\n

High-Level and Mixed Clouds<\/h3>\n

The highest-level clouds form up to the highest levels of the troposphere, and occasionally into the tropopause.\u00a0 They are types of cirrus clouds, often wispy and made of ice crystals.\u00a0 Cirrocumulus clouds look like flakes or ripples, and cirrostratus clouds are a very thin veil.\u00a0 Mixed clouds can have low bases and billow upwards through different levels.\u00a0 For example, nimbostratus clouds carry heavy rain and extend across a wide area horizontally and vertically.\u00a0 Towering cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds are formed in convection areas and can carry thunderstorms, downbursts, and cause flash floods.\u00a0 On a weather map, they are associated with the most severe disturbances.<\/p>\n

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Overview Clouds on Earth form in the atmosphere from condensed water vapor.\u00a0 They are classified both by their location in the troposphere and by their appearance.\u00a0 Some clouds are low-level, with bases closest to the surface; others are mid-level; and others are at the highest levels of the troposphere.\u00a0 There are over 90 different types […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4098,4094,4097,4096,4095],"class_list":["post-66950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-sciences","tag-cirrus","tag-clouds","tag-cumulonimbus","tag-cumulus","tag-stratus"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}