Description
Reeds Cloud Handbook is a quick-access, easy-to-use guide to identifying cloud types and how to predict what each cloud type can tell us about the weather and predict how it will change.
This concise pocket reference will appeal to those who spend time outdoors and wants to better understand the weather, with its principal focus for sailors and also anyone going walking, fishing, cycling etc. This portable handbook will give you the essential information about common and unusual cloud types, how they form and what weather patterns are associated with them.
Fully illustrated with colour photography and clear diagrams, this cloud identification guide includes sections on different weather patterns and how clouds form, different clouds according to where they appear in the sky, related features and different forms of fog. Each entry gives guidance on how and when to spot different cloud types and effects, and how the clouds relate to wind and rain patterns.
Table of Contents
How to use this book
A brief introduction to the clouds
Deciphering cloud names
A bit of historyWeather systems
Air masses
Depressions
AnticyclonesHigh clouds
Cirrus
Thick cirrus (cirrus spissatus)
Cirrostratus
Cirrocumulus
Contrails (cirrus homogenitus)
Middle clouds
Altocumulus floccus
Altocumulus castellanus
Altocumulus sheets (altocumulus stratiformis)
Altocumulus lenticularis
Thin altostratus (altostratus translucidus)
Thick altostratus (altostratus opacus)
Lower clouds
Cumulus
Cumulus fractus
Fair weather cumulus (cumulus humilis)
Towering cumulus (cumulus congestus)
Cumulus cloud streets (cumulus radiatus)
Featureless stratus (stratus nebulosus)
Broken stratus (stratus fractus)
Stratocumulus
Stratocumulus stratiformis
Stratocumulus castellanus
Nimbostratus
Cumulonimbus calvus
Cumulonimbus capillatus
Thunderstorms
Supplementary features and accessory clouds
Supplementary features
Asperitas
Mamma
Fall streaks (virga)
Anvil (incus)
Funnel cloud (tuba)
Shelf and roll clouds (arcus)
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (fluctus)
Accessory clouds
Cap clouds (pileus)
Pannus
Velum
Fog
Sea fog (advection fog)
Land fog (radiation fog)
Upslope fog
Frontal fog
Sea smoke
Clouds outside the troposphere
Nacreous (mother of pearl)
Noctilucent
Optical phenomena
Rainbow
Corona
Halo
Mock sun/sun dog/parhelion
Iridescence
Ice rainbow (circumzenithal arc)
Sunbeams and crepuscular rays
Glory
Cloud weather lore
Glossary
Quick cloud identifier
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