How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight—or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus ...

Unlike conventional white paints that scatter sunlight but glow hot in thermal imaging, the new white state of the plasmonic ...

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Cumulus clouds can mature in unstable environments and become cumulonimbus clouds. ... So those little pieces of white cotton candy in the sky are fluffy thanks to water vapor and the water cycle.

Cumulus clouds, low and rain-free, get their name from the Latin word for "heap." ... such clouds appear to bubble into the sky, turning grey at the bottom and brilliant white at the ...

During an eclipse, shallow cumulus clouds start dissipating in large proportions when only a fraction of the sun is covered, and they don’t reform until the end of the event, according to a ...

Conventional white coatings (e.g., titanium dioxide, TiO₂ based) scatter sunlight diffusively, but are only effective in ...

Join CU Wizards on January 25th when Dr. Katja Friedrich, a physicist who has ventured into the Alps and Rocky Mountains to better understand the physics of clouds, storms and mountainous weather, ...

Pileus or scarf clouds form atop a growing, dense, puffy and white cumulus cloud, due to updrafts from a thunderstorm. Jam Press. The rainbow halo is actually an atmospheric optical phenomenon ...

If a cloud were exactly 1 km cubed in volume, there would be enough water molecules inside a cloud to add up to more than 1.1 million pounds. And that’s just water weight.

Scientists have measured the water density of a typical cumulus cloud (the white, fluffy ones you see on a nice day) as 1/2 gram per cubic meter—about a small marble’s worth of water in a ...