Nimbostratus Clouds - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Nimbostratus clouds are deep clouds that produce substantial rain or snow due to their vertical extent, distinguishing them from shallower cloud types like stratus and stratocumulus. They are often associated with organized storm systems and can occur in both midlatitudes and tropics. AI generated definition based on: International Geophysics, 2014
Nimbostratus and the Separation of Convective and Stratiform ...
2014年1月1日 · Precipitation is of two clearly distinguishable types— stratiform and convective. Stratiform precipitation falls from nimbostratus clouds, while convective precipitation falls from active cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. These cloud types may occur separately or entangled with each other in the same cloud complex.
Observed microphysical structure of nimbostratus in northeast …
2014年6月1日 · Abstract. Airborne measurements were collected during a stepwise ascent within a nimbostratus cloud associated with a northeast cold vortex in Jilin Province over China on 20 June 2005 to study cloud structure and ice particle spectra. The microphysical structure of the nimbostratus was elucidated by King liquid water probe and Particle ...
Chapter 6 Nimbostratus - ScienceDirect
1993年1月1日 · Publisher Summary. This chapter reveals that nimbostratus are deep stratiform clouds from which significant amounts of rain or snow fall occur extensively in both the midlatitudes and the tropics. They are associated with the widespread continuous clouds of mesoscale convective systems, hurricanes, and extratropical cyclones.
Cloud structure and crystal growth in nimbostratus
2002年1月1日 · Abstract. Cloud structure and crystal growth in two nimbostratus were examined using in situ and airborne radar observations. In both cases, structure throughout the cloud depth was modulated by generating cells at about 8-km altitude. Large-scale horizontal homogeneity at altitudes below the generating cells was due to the rapid movement of ...
Cirrostratus Clouds - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The tops of dark, steadily precipitating nimbostratus clouds can be as shallow as 2–3 km and even be above freezing in temperature, or they may reach above 13 km (at cirriform cloud levels) and be as cold as −80°C. At elevations above the freezing level, nimbostratus is largely composed of ice crystals and snowflakes, though embedded thin ...
Types of Clouds in Earth's Atmosphere - ScienceDirect
2014年1月1日 · However, it may also be the upper-level leading or trailing canopy of a nimbostratus cloud. A common form of cirrostratus is the leading canopy of a frontal cloud system (as can be seen in satellite pictures such as those shown below in Section 1.3.3).
Electrical signatures of Nimbostratus and Stratus clouds in ground ...
2018年9月1日 · Nimbostratus (Ns) and Stratus (St) are cloud genera described as stratiform, i.e. in the form of broad cloud sheets characterised by little vertical motion – contrary to cumuliform clouds formed by rising air currents, such as Cumulus clouds …
Cirrocumulus Clouds - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The tops of dark, steadily precipitating nimbostratus clouds can be as shallow as 2–3 km and even be above freezing in temperature, or they may reach above 13 km (at cirriform cloud levels) and be as cold as −80°C. At elevations above the freezing level, nimbostratus is largely composed of ice crystals and snowflakes, though embedded thin ...
Anvil Clouds - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
The stratiform precipitation falls from deep nimbostratus cloud arising by the processes described in Section 6.6, i.e., by virtue of active convective cells weakening and converting to stratiform elements, or by wind shear within the cloud system advecting the upper portions of older cells into neighboring regions. Thus, the nimbostratus ...