Are clouds a gas, liquid, and/or solid?
Aug 16, 2015 · So that makes it sound like it could be a liquid, or contain liquid droplets rather than "freely moving" molecules that typically make up a gas. But at another web site, which …
In which state of matter exactly are the clouds? [duplicate]
Feb 4, 2020 · It looks like your question was closed, asking for additional clarity. If you can edit it and make it more answerable, for example "how much of a cloud's water is gas and how much …
climate models - Why are satellite cloud type observations based …
Oct 8, 2024 · The cloud top pressure depends on the cloud top temperature. I think the reason for using the cloud top pressure, is because the main parameter the cloud type classification …
How come the pressure/shock waves of an explosive volcanic …
May 14, 2024 · (Please read the text thoroughly before giving an answer) A big explosive eruption goes off with the energy of hundreds or thousands of nuclear weapons combined. It would be …
How do 'greenhouse gases' let heat in, but not let it out?
Jul 31, 2018 · The peak is in the visible range*. It also shows the thermal radiation from the earth in blue. This is in the infrared range. Below, it shows how different gases allow transmission of …
meteorology - How to convert the units of specific cloud liquid …
I am trying to initialize my model with the cloud liquid water data from ERA5. My model IITM-ESM which evolved from CFSv2 takes in the cloud liquid water information in …
How is cloud column water calculated in GDAS model files?
May 17, 2024 · Some of the fields in the netCDF files include profiles (127 layers) of cloud water q CL [kg kg-1], difference in geopotential altitude Δz [m], difference in pressure Δp [Pa], cloud …
Cloud in a bottle experiment. Why does the "cloud" get thicker …
Feb 16, 2016 · So, anyways, a cloud droplet forms around a condensation nucleus. Energy is released, while water vapor is absorbed from the gas around the nucleus. As the droplet falls …
How much and what kind of radiation passes through a cloud?
Jul 25, 2016 · They are not. What a cloud actually does to block or not block electro-magnetic radiation is not an absolute. It varies by type of cloud, thickness, altitude, angle of the sun and …
Is it possible to create an enclosed manmade weather system?
Annecdote 1: At the EGU 2014 Annual Conference in Vienna, the organisers created a series of rooms that you could walk through and experience being inside a cloud. Annecdote 2: …