Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with critical information about incoming weather patterns. If you’re a local hiker ...

Clouds are important for the Earth's energy balance because they interact with radiation in different ways: On one hand, low clouds reflect incoming solar radiation and thus cool the Earth through a ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Have you ever looked up at the sky and noticed how different the clouds can be from one day to the next? Clouds are actually powerful indicators of what’s happening in our ...

White and fluffy or filmy and thin, clouds can be fascinating. The visible masses of condensed vapor particles suspended in the atmosphere, characterized by weather patterns and atmospheric activities ...

Clouds influence how much the Earth warms in response to a given increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. In addition to their extent and brightness, cloud altitude is one of the cloud properties ...