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  2. List of cloud types - Wikipedia

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    Altostratus translucidus (V-49) near top of photo thickening into altostratus opacus (V-50) near bottom. Abbreviation: As [9] Stratiform clouds of the genus altostratus form when a large convectively stable air mass is lifted to condensation in the middle level of the troposphere, usually along a frontal system. Altostratus can bring light rain ...

  3. Cloudscape photography - Wikipedia

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    Colourful clouds. Cloudscape photography is photography of clouds or sky.. An early cloudscape photographer, Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870–1943), was noted for his black and white photographs of heavy skies and dark clouds.

  4. Asperitas (cloud) - Wikipedia

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    Asperitas (formerly known as Undulatus asperatus) is a cloud formation first popularized and proposed as a type of cloud in 2009 by Gavin Pretor-Pinney of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Added to the International Cloud Atlas as a supplementary feature in March 2017, it is the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951. [2]

  5. Equivalents - Wikipedia

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    Equivalent (1926), one of many photographs of the sky taken by Stieglitz.. Equivalents is a series of photographs of clouds taken by Alfred Stieglitz from 1925 to 1934. They are generally recognized as the first photographs intended to free the subject matter from literal interpretation, and, as such, are some of the first completely abstract photographic works of art.

  6. Mammatus cloud - Wikipedia

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    Mammatus cloud seen at Puthenpeedika, India Mammatus clouds formation in Coimbatore, India Mammatus clouds over the Nepal Himalayas. Mammatus (also called mamma [1] or mammatocumulus, meaning "mammary cloud") is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to other classes of parent clouds.

  7. Waves in the sky: Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds spotted in Canada

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    The AccuWeather photo blog also featured Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds seen over the Big Horn Mountains near Sheridan, Wyoming, on Dec. 6, 2022. Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds at Big Horn Mountains ...

  8. Cumulus cloud - Wikipedia

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    Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance. Their name derives from the Latin cumulus, meaning "heap" or "pile". [1] Cumulus clouds are low-level clouds, generally less than 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in altitude unless they are the more vertical cumulus congestus form. Cumulus ...

  9. Cumulonimbus cloud - Wikipedia

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    Cumulonimbus (from Latin cumulus 'swell' and nimbus 'cloud') is a dense, towering, vertical cloud, [1] typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents.