A research team has explored how different cloud types impact solar forecasting. The scientists explained that clouds present a great challenge to solar forecasting due to diverse and complex ...

What's the difference between a nimbostratus and an altocumulus cloud? What about a horseshoe vortex or a contrail? This is what Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Author and Visiting Fellow at The Department of ...

There are mainly four types of clouds, which are further sub-categorised into 12 sub-types. Usually, when you look up at the sky, you will always find shifting shapes of clouds that are more than just ...

When satellites first began taking photos of our Earth it revolutionized the way we saw our atmosphere, providing images on a grand scale from above. Now the advent of personal tech, such as smart ...

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A method is introduced to derive cloud effects on the earth radiation budget. The ISCCP C1 cloud data for daylight cases are used in combination with a radiative transfer model to estimate the ...