Dear Tom, What determines the height of clouds? Some seem to rise extremely high. Bob Kozlik, Riverwoods Dear Bob,Three general cloud-height classifications exist: low, middle and high. Clouds… ...

In the summer, the much warmer air mass expands like a dome and causes the troposphere to reach a height of 11 miles above the surface. This is why clouds tend to grow bigger and taller in the summer ...

Scientists have discovered why icy clouds found at the edge of space are higher at the South Pole than at the North. The answer to this puzzle is that the intensity of solar radiation at the South ...

IT would be interesting if any of the readers of NATURE could give some information respecting the usual height of cirrus clouds. Mr. Clement Ley, in his work, “The Laws of the Winds,” states ...

THE electric light promising to be of great intensity at a small cost, the thought occurred to me that it might be used with advantage for the purpose of ascertaining the height of clouds. For ...

Measurement of Height of Clouds. By A. Mallock. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter. Email Address.

Measurements with a laser ceilometer – a device that determines the height of a cloud base – done in Sodankylä, Finland and Halley, Antarctica, revealed that the cloud base rises an average of four ...

Noctilucent clouds, or “night-shining” mesospheric clouds, are the highest clouds in the atmosphere, sitting at a height of 50 miles above the earth.

Noctilucent (Latin for “night-shining”) clouds are typically rare, and are located at a height of around 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth in a layer of atmosphere known as the Mesosphere.

This article was originally published with the title “ How to Measure the Height of Clouds ” in SA Supplements Vol. 4 No. 99supp (November 1877), p. 1574 doi:10. ...