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More about Clouds on the Web



Cirrocumulus clouds over the
NCAR Mesa Laboratory

Learning about clouds

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds (English)

Web Weather for Kids: Nubes (Spanish)

Clouds and the Water Cycle

Requires Adobe Acrobat ReaderAtmospheric Science Explorers:
Cloud Chart and Experiments to Try

GLOBE Cloud Exploration

Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader GLOBE Cloud Chart: English, French, Spanish

Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader GLOBE Cloud Chart: Arabic, Chinese, Russian

GLOBE Contrail Education, including contrail charts in 11 languages

Educational resources about cloud types from DLESE



Towering cumulus cloud
(Photo by Carlye Calvin.)
Cloud and weather photography

Digital Image Library (Browse for "Clouds")

Carlye Calvin Photography: Weather


Weather and climate research

Understanding cloud systems: Are researchers closing in on a general theory of convective cloud systems? (Staff Notes Monthly, February 2003)

New probes paint a wet picture of high-altitude cirrus, offering new clues to hurricane behavior (UCAR Quarterly, Summer 2002).

Research on Prediction and Forecasting

Research on Climate and Climate Change


Books available for purchase

The Rough Guide to Weather, by Robert Henson, UCAR writer/editor

Skywatch (East and West), by Richard Keen, University of Colorado climatologist

The Stories Clouds Tell, by Margaret LeMone, NCAR senior scientist


Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds (Photo by Benjamin Foster.)
 
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