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  2. List of cloud types - Wikipedia

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    Clear slot or dry slot (informal term) – an evaporation of clouds as a rear flank downdraft descends and dries out cloud and occludes around a mesocyclone. Cloud tags (WMO species fractus) – ragged detached portions of cloud. Collar cloud (WMO velum accessory cloud) – ring shape surrounding upper part of wall cloud.

  3. Cloud - Wikipedia

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    Overlapping clouds (in meteorology, probably duplicatus clouds) are thought to imply eternal happiness [170] and clouds of different colors are said to indicate "multiplied blessings". [170] Informal cloud watching or cloud gazing is a popular activity involving watching the clouds and looking for shapes in them, a form of pareidolia. [171] [172]

  4. Evaporation - Wikipedia

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    In hydrology, evaporation and transpiration (which involves evaporation within plant stomata) are collectively termed evapotranspiration. Evaporation of water occurs when the surface of the liquid is exposed, allowing molecules to escape and form water vapor; this vapor can then rise up and form clouds.

  5. Stratus silvagenitus - Wikipedia

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    Stratus silvagenitus is a type of stratus cloud.The word silvagenitus is a scientific Latin coinage meaning "created from forest". [1] This cloud type forms over forested areas which are experiencing high relative humidity levels, for example, after precipitation has passed, through evaporation and/or evapotranspiration.

  6. Cloud physics - Wikipedia

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    the cloud IR emissivity, with values between 0 and 1, with a global average around 0.7; the effective cloud amount, the cloud amount weighted by the cloud IR emissivity, with a global average of 0.5; the cloud (visible) optical depth varies within a range of 4 and 10. the cloud water path for the liquid and solid (ice) phases of the cloud particles

  7. Evaporating cloud - Wikipedia

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    The evaporating cloud is one of the six thinking processes in the theory of constraints (TOC). The evaporating cloud (EC) – also referred to in the literature as "the cloud", or as a "conflict resolution diagram" [ 1 ] – is a logical diagram representing a problem that has no obvious satisfactory solution.

  8. Water vapor - Wikipedia

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    From cloud physics, usually clouds are the real generators of static charge as found in Earth's atmosphere. The ability of clouds to hold massive amounts of electrical energy is directly related to the amount of water vapor present in the local system. The amount of water vapor directly controls the permittivity of the air. During times of low ...

  9. Cloud feedback - Wikipedia

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    Cloud feedback is a type of climate change ... and determining it involves computationally heavy continuous calculations of evaporation and condensation within clouds.