Know Your Clouds. Tim Harris
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Название: Know Your Clouds

Автор: Tim Harris

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Физика

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isbn: 9781913618100

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       Know Your Clouds

      Old Pond Publishing is an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishers International Ltd.

      Project Team

      Consultant Publisher: Helen Brocklehurst

      Editor: Sue Viccars

      Designer: Emily Kingston

      Copyright © 2020 by Tim Harris and Fox Chapel Publishers International Ltd.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Fox Chapel Publishers, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

      Print ISBN 978-1-913618-09-4

      eIBSN 978-1-913618-10-0

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Fox Chapel Publishing 903 Square Street Mount Joy, PA 17552

      Fox Chapel Publishers International Ltd. 3 The Bridle Way, Selsey, Chichester West Sussex PO20 0RS, U.K.

       www.oldpond.com

      Cover photo: Fair-weather cumulus on a summer afternoon

      Photo on pages 2–3: Ominous yet benign, noctilucent clouds glow in the night sky over Lithuania

      Contents

       Foreword

       The nature and naming of clouds

       How clouds form

       Cumulus family

       1 Fair weather cumulus

       2 Medium cumulus

       3 Towering cumulus

       4 Fire cloud

       5 Cumulonimbus

       6 Anvil cloud

       7 Mammatus

       Stratus family

       8 Featureless stratus

       9 Nimbostratus

       Altocumulus family

       10 Mackerel sky

       11 Lens and pancake clouds

       12 Castles in the sky

       Altostratus family

       Cirrus family

       13 Fibrous cirrus

       14 Mares’ tails

       15 Wave clouds

       Cirrocumulus family

       16 Grains-of-rice sky

       Cirrostratus family

       17 Nebulosus and fibrous cirrostratus

       18 Mother-of-pearl clouds

       19 Noctilucent clouds

       Optical phenomena

       Rainbows

       Coronas and rainbow fringes

       Ice crystal light shows

       Haloes

       Arcs

       Sun dogs and sun pillars

       Acknowledgements

       Picture Credits

      Foreword

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