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  2. Cloud albedo - Wikipedia

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    Higher liquid water and ice content in a cloud increases its albedo, which is the dominant factor in determining the cloud's reflectivity. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The change in albedo is greater for clouds with less water content to start with and larger clouds begin to receive diminishing returns with increased content.

  3. Cloud physics - Wikipedia

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    the cloud IR emissivity, with values between 0 and 1, with a global average around 0.7; the effective cloud amount, the cloud amount weighted by the cloud IR emissivity, with a global average of 0.5; the cloud (visible) optical depth varies within a range of 4 and 10. the cloud water path for the liquid and solid (ice) phases of the cloud particles

  4. Hygroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Other polymers, such as polyethylene and polystyrene, do not normally absorb much moisture, but are able to carry significant moisture on their surface when exposed to liquid water. [ 33 ] Type-6 nylon (a polyamide ) can absorb up to 9.5% of its weight in moisture.

  5. Cloud feedback - Wikipedia

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    Under dry, cloud-free conditions, water vapor in atmosphere contributes 67% of the greenhouse effect on Earth. When there is enough moisture to form typical cloud cover, the greenhouse effect from "free" water vapor goes down to 50%, but water vapor which is now inside the clouds amounts to 25%, and the net greenhouse effect is at 75%. [21]

  6. Storm clouds make great pictures, but what do they mean - AOL

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    Low, ragged clouds that appear beneath the main cloud base. Formed from moist air lifted by outflow winds from a storm. Often mistaken for tornadoes, but they are typically harmless, indicating ...

  7. Hurricane dynamics and cloud microphysics - Wikipedia

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    Hurricanes are mixed-phase clouds, meaning that liquid and solid water (ice) are both present in the cloud. Typically, liquid water dominates at altitudes lower than the freezing level and solid water at altitudes where the temperature is colder than -40 °C. Between 0 °C and -40 °C water can exists in both phases simultaneously.

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  9. Convective condensation level - Wikipedia

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    It marks where the cloud base begins when air is heated from below to the convective temperature, without mechanical lift. [ 1 ] Once the CCL is determined, the surface temperature necessary to raise a mass of air to that height can be found by using the Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate (DALR) to determine the potential temperature.