A blanket of strange pock-marked clouds has been spotted by NASA satellites off the coast of Chile. A picture of the beautiful cloud formations taken in August last year was featured as NASA Earth ...

Drizzle is light precipitation in droplets smaller than rain drops. Detecting drizzle in its early stages in marine stratocumulus clouds is important for studying how water in these clouds becomes ...

Stratocumulus clouds are low, puffy and gray clouds that usually form in rows. The blue sky can also be visible between these clouds. Rain rarely occurs with stratocumulus clouds, however, they can ...

Stratocumulus clouds form large carpets in the sky covering approximately 20% of the earth’s surface. They reflect around 40% of the sun’s radiation back into space. The international research team ...

A new field campaign at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will provide unprecedented four-season data on the properties of coastal marine clouds, including their radiative effects and ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered, “What kind of clouds are those?” Sometimes, they look like little fluffy blobs; other times, they tower like skyscrapers, ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...