LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS CLOUDS (IN A FAMOUSLY CLOUDY REGION).(Local) From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: March 6, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Dru Sefton, Newhouse News Service

Courtesy www.cloudappreciationsociety.org

There's one in Northern Australia called the Morning Glory, and it hangs out in a remote area of Queensland each spring.

"It's in the shape of an enormous tube, stretching for hundreds of miles," said Gavin Pretor-Pinney. "It moves at around 35 mph. Glider pilots congregate to surf it as if it were an ocean wave."

To most of us, clouds simply mean we'd be...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	CLOUDS ARE MADE OF WATER DROPLETS, ICE CRYSTALS.(LOCAL) Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) ; Q: What are clouds made of? Jimmy Andrus Grade 7 Sennett Middle School A: Clouds are made of uncountable tiny particles, either water droplets or ice crystals or a mixture of the two, says Grant Petty, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison. The water droplets are usually
	Scientists discover plankton in clouds over Oklahoma; Iced: Hurricane Nora sent the ocean life skyward in 1997 Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) ; WASHINGTON (AP) - Filmy ice clouds high in the sky over the center of the nation contained minute sea creatures lofted into the air by a Pacific Ocean hurricane, a new analysis concludes. Hurricane Nora in September, 1997, struck Mexico and moved north into Southern California before blowing out.
	Ex-spy plane to help UW scientists shed light on clouds Differentiating between cirrus and snow on ground is a goal The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; The University of Wisconsin-Madison will join the spy trade for the next three weeks, using a converted military intelligence aircraft to study clouds over Wisconsin, the upper Midwest and southern Canada. A former U-2 spy plane was fitted Friday with the latest in high-technology gear for mapping
	Blue clouds at night, global hots fright.(News) Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) ; DAZZLING electric blue clouds on the edge of space could be a tell-tale sign of global warming, according to scientists. The thin wispy glowing clouds, known as 'night shining', or noctilucent clouds (NLCs), have been seen from Earth and photographed by astronauts aboard the International Space
	Know Your Clouds! Yes, you m ... The Washington Post ; Know Your Clouds! Yes, you might've learned all of this in school. But if you didn't, this mini-lesson should help. The following descriptions are excerpted and adapted from "The Cloudspotter's Guide." Cirrostratus: The high milky veils that most people barely notice. Largely transparent high
	Range-height scans of lidar depolarization for characterizing properties and phase of clouds and precipitation Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology ; ABSTRACT Backscatter and depolarization lidar measurements from clouds and precipitation are reported as functions of the elevation angle of the pointing lidar direction. The data were recorded by scanning the lidar beam (Nd: YAG) at a constant angular speed of -3.5' s-' while operating at a
	CHAIN AGGREGATES OF ICE CRYSTALS Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ; Because cumulus cloud bases in many regions of the Tropics are often relatively near the surface, it is believed that there is usually time for precipitation to form and remove the liquid water from the clouds before the cloudy updrafts reach middle to upper levels of the troposphere. However, few
	Clouds Click ; Clouds come in all shapes and sizes. Some look like they are so close you could touch them. Others float way up high. Clouds help the people, animals, and plants living on the earth by bringing us water in the form of rain, snow, and hail. Cumulus clouds look like puffy white pillows. Sometimes
	Observed microphysical structure of midlevel, mixed-phase clouds Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ; ... Fig. 2, along with the corresponding 500-mb geopotential height maps. All of the clouds formed in regions of large-scale lifting associated ... creating many of the figures. The 500-mb geopotential height maps were provided by the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder ...
	In Situ Observations of the Microphysical Properties of Wave, Cirrus, and Anvil Clouds. Part I: Wave Clouds Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ; ABSTRACT The microphysical properties of wave clouds based on data collected during 17 missions flown by a Learjet research aircraft are presented and discussed. This extensive dataset expands upon previous aircraft studies of wave clouds and introduces some new findings. While most aspects of the

See all results.