A cumulonimbus cloud over eastern Georgia photographed on August 9th, 2024. Marshall Shepherd. Even on quiet nights out for dinner with my wife, weather geekdom can find its way to the surface.

To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the water vapor it holds condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals. If ...

Cumulonimbus clouds. Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top. Develops from cumulus clouds and can reach great heights, often associated with thunderstorms.

Paris questions if clouds will cool or warm our world. EarthCARE satellite, a joint mission by ESA and JAXA, will study cloud composition to update climate models, understand global warming ...

The satellite's radar will pierce through the clouds to measure how much water they contain, and track their speed. Other instruments will measure shape and temperature.

Clouds – from cumulus and cirrus to cumulonimbus – are a varied and complicated phenomenon. Low-level cumulus clouds are known to cool the planet, while the cirrus clouds higher up act as a ...

A first-of-its-kind satellite due to launch on Tuesday will be able to see through clouds and leafy canopies to assess how they are protecting the planet from climate change. The Biomass satellite ...

Clouds. They’re not very well understood. EarthCARE, a soon-to-launch satellite, will use advanced tech to unlock their mysteries, ... View 2 Images 1 / 2.

A rocket carrying a sophisticated satellite blasted off Tuesday from California on a mission to investigate what role clouds could play in the fight against climate change.

Clouds — from cumulus and cirrus to cumulonimbus — are a varied and complicated phenomenon. ... All this data will create the first complete picture of clouds from the perspective of a satellite.

EarthCARE satellite to probe how clouds affect climate. Tuesday 28 May 2024 - 17:47pm. ... Clouds -- from cumulus and cirrus to cumulonimbus -- are a varied and complicated phenomenon.