where does the cumulonimbus cloud live?
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In the stratosphere, or simply put the sky.
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A cloud is a visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
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No such thing.\nNimbus is a name you use with a cloud type.\nIt means it's a 'rain cloud' version of the cloud in reference.\nE.G. Cumulonimbus is a Cumulus cloud with precipitation.\nA Nimbostratus cloud is a Stratus (high altitude sheet-like cloud) with precipitation. (usually hail)
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In 1896 the International Cloud Atlas was published.  It listed 10 diferent kinds of clouds.  Cloud #9 was cumulo-nimbus, which is the highest type of cloud there is.\n\nHope this helps :-)
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What are clouds?\nA cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air. \n\nHow are clouds formed?\nAll air contains water, but near the ground it is usually in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor. When warm air rises, it expands and cools. Cool air can't hold as much water vapor as warm air, so some of the vapor condenses onto tiny pieces of dust that are floating in the air and forms a tiny droplet around each dust particle. When billions of these droplets come together they become a visible cloud. \n\nWhy are clouds white?\nClouds are white because they reflect the light of the sun. Light is made up of colors of the rainbow and when you add them all together you get white. The sun appears a yellow color because it sends out more yellow light than any other color. Clouds reflect all the colors the exact same amount so they look white.\n\nWhy do clouds turn gray?\nClouds are made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, usually a mixture of both. The water and ice scatter all light, making clouds appear white. If the clouds get thick enough or high enough all the light above does not make it through, hence the gray or dark look. Also, if there are lots of other clouds around, their shadow can add to the gray or multicolored gray appearance.\n \nWhy do clouds float?\nA cloud forms when air heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly cools it reaches the saturation point and water condenses, forming a cloud. As long as the cloud and the air that its made of is warmer than the outside air around it, it floats!\n\nHow do clouds move?\nClouds move with the wind. High cirrus clouds are pushed along by the jet stream, sometimes traveling at more than 100 miles-per-hour. When clouds are part of a thunderstorm they usually travel at 30 to 40
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They end up becoming the 'seeds' of clouds.  That is, water in the air condenses around them, & once the process starts, those condensation  trails sometimes form into clouds up to 500 miles long.\n\nI read about it in, I believe, Popular Science a couple years ago.  There was also a fascinating article about a study that took place during the 3 days in 9/01 when all planes in the U.S. were grounded:  due apparently to the reduced cloud cover, temps everywhere were a couple degrees higher those days!
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the location where the magnosphere emits from the surface of the earth. the magnoshere envelopes the earth some 1000 miles out & protects us from the suns radiation
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Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways.\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen\n\nalong warm and cold fronts (frontal lift), \nwhere air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift), \nby the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating), \nwhen warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water. \n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails, and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation.\n\n\nand there's lots more at....
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cumulus, cirrus, nimbus, marestails, cumulonimbus, stratus, cumulostratus, cirrostratus, altostratus, stratocumulus, altocumulus, cirrocumulus, nimbostratus,haze, smog, fog, cumulus congestus, cumulus humilis, stratus opacus, stratocumulus undulatus, cirrus radiaus, cirrostratus fibratus, cumulonimbus mammatos, cumulonimbus incus, cirrocumulus undulatus, cirrocumulus stratiformis, alsostratus translucidus, altocumulus lenticularis, altocumulus castellanus
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3 things r neede for cloud formation...cooling of air, presence of water vapour (relative humidity shud be close to 100%), and condensation nuclei( like dust particles).\ndunno who found it, sorry
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no clouds are not solid they are made  up of water  vapor and gas. Clouds are formed when air contains as much water vapor (gas) as it can hold. This is called the saturation point, and it can be reached in two ways. First, moisture accumulates until it reaches the maximum amount the volume of air can hold. The other method reduces the temperature of the moisture filled air, which in turn lowers the amount of moisture it can contain. Saturation, therefore, is reached through evaporation and condensation, respectively. When saturation occurs, moisture becomes visible water droplets in the form of fog and clouds.\n\nIt should be noted that condensation by itself does not cause precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, hail). The moisture in clouds must become heavy enough to succumb to gravity and return to earth's surface. This occurs through two processes. In cold clouds ice crystals and water droplets exist side by side. Due to an imbalance of water vapor pressure, the water droplets transfer to the ice crystals. The crystal seventually grow heavy enough to fall to earth. In the second process, water droplets in warm clouds collide and change their electric charge.Droplets of unlike charge attract one another and merge, thereby growing until they have sufficient weight to fall.\n\nThere is no difference between fog and clouds other than altitude. Fog is defined as a visible moisture that begins at a height lower than 50 feet. If the visible moisture begins at or above 50 feet, it is called a cloud. Two common types of fog are called radiation fog and advection fog. Radiation fog forms during the night as the earth's surface cools and the air immediately above it cools in turn by conduction. If the air is moist enough, the cooling causes it to reach saturation and visible water droplets form. We often call this type of fog ground fog because it lies so close to the surface. Advection fog forms when warm moist air moves over a colder surface (advection means to move horizontally). A perfect example is on the west coast of continents. Prevailing westerly winds move moist air from over a warm ocean area to over the colder waters off the coast. Fog forms and is carried by the westerly over the land.\n\nClouds can form anywhere in the troposphere, and although condensed liquid, they are light enough to float in the air and move from place to place by the wind. Clouds are classified according to appearance and height. Based on appearance, there are two major types: Clouds of vertical development, formed by the condensation of rising air; and clouds that are layered, formed by condensation of air without vertical movement. When clouds are classified by height, there are four classes: high, middle, low, and vertical development.\n\nCloud names, of which there are twelve, combine appearance and height. A brief description of the root name will indicate this combination of features.
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The clouds form when air near the earth's surface is warmed, causing it to rise since warm air rises. Think of a marshmallow in a microwave; as the microwave heats the marshmallow it begins to expand. This is similar to most things, like air. When air heats up it expands and this expanding air has to go somewhere because it is taking up more space, just as the marshmallow does, so this expanding warm air rises. Well, as the air rises it is losing its heat and cooling. When things cool, they condense; think of the marshmallow again as it cools when you take it out of the microwave (it shrinks, or condenses). In a general sense, to give you a brief idea of how clouds form, when condensation occurs, clouds take shape; you must keep in mind, however, that there is much more involved in cloud formation, but this was just to get you thinking and give a place for the lightning to happen.\n\nThe tendency of charges within a cloud is to have positive charges gather toward the upper portion and negative charges in the bottom of the cloud. \nWhen the difference between these charges is great enough to overcome the air's natural insulation, which keeps these charges from mixing, a lightning flash can take place. This charge difference builds up to millions of volts before the stoke of lightning takes place. The lightning bolt actually happens because nature tries to maintain equilibrium, a state of balance between all things. This is why the lightning that you see is a discharge of energy in the form of electricity. \n\nyea..thats the scientific answer to why it strikes...hope u can undertand it....i got it in skool\n\nas for how far away it is\n\ni learned that it comes from the "eye" of the storm or the center, && after the lightning flashes, count mississippi & the number of seconds equals a rought amount of miles you are away from the "eye" of the storm\n\nhope that helps
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Another individual stated that the clouds act as a blanked and keept the earth warm.  That is an accurate answer. So, let's look a little deeper.\n\nFirst, clouds are the formations of moisture.  The thicker the clouds, the more moisture that is in them. \n\nNext, remember that heat rises.  During the day, the earth is warmed.  It cools at night.  The heat rises into the air.\n\nWater has a high specific heat, meaning a large amount of energy is needed to heat the water.  Likewise, it take a long period of time to cool the water.\n\nAs the clouds cover the earth, they are insulating the land.  Thus when the heat rises, it hits the clouds creating a barrier.  Thus the rate of cooling is slower than when there is not any cloud cover.\n\nPlease note there are exceptions to the rule.  We've all seen or heard of snowstorms coming in and the air is cooling very quickly.  But the general rule is that on a cloudy winter night, the temperature will not drop as low as if there were no clouds.  And you are less likely to scrape frost from your windshield.
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Yes. See the cloud types shown here --- http://www.ccrc.sr.unh.edu/~stm/AS/Weather_Toolbox/Cloud_Classification.html\n\nAltostratus is about half-way down the page
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In the process of the water cycle, moisture can accumulate in the atmosphere. This accumulation is what we see as a cloud. Interestingly, clouds can contain millions upon millions of water droplets and ice suspended in the air. As the process of evaporation and condensation continues, these droplets encounter many collisions with other moisture that is in the process of condensing as it rises. Also, the rising moisture may collide with ice or sleet that is in the process of falling to the earth or located in the lower portion of the cloud. The importance of these collisions is that electrons are knocked off of the rising moisture, thus creating a charge separation. \n\nThe newly knocked-off electrons gather at the lower portion of the cloud, giving it a negative charge. The rising moisture that has just lost an electron carries a positive charge to the top of the cloud. Beyond the collisions, freezing plays an important role. As the rising moisture encounters colder temperatures in the upper cloud regions and begins to freeze, the frozen portion becomes negatively charged and the unfrozen droplets become positively charged. At this point, rising air currents have the ability to remove the positively charged droplets from the ice and carry them to the top of the cloud. The remaining frozen portion would likely fall to the lower portion of the cloud or continue on to the ground. Combining the collisions with the freezing, we can begin to understand how a cloud may acquire the extreme charge separation that is required for a lightning stroke.
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This is not always the case.  The phenomenon you speak of is most associated with cumulus clouds, those you see most in the  spring, summer, and fall, and which also produce the most weather (including tornadoes and the main source of hurricanes).  Cirrus and stratus clouds are generally quite flat or layered in structure and are responsible for most overcast days.  Most aren't very fluffy, though high winds aloft can sometimes cause them to take some pretty interesting shapes.\nCumulus are the "cauliflower" like clouds that form when air from below rises rapidly because its unstable.  Air is unstable when it is warmer than air around it.\nCumulus form when the ground heats up during the day causing the air near it to become unstable or when some "forcing" mechanism like a front causes lift.  The flat base forms when the air rising from below reaches saturation (air cools as it rises, and thus the relative humidity increases until it reaches about 100% when the cloud begins to form).    Because the source air for the cloud is all of about the same moisture and temperature, all of the rising air reaches saturation at the same level (termed the Lifted Condensation Level (LCL), when the air starts rising very near the ground).\n\nBecause the air is still unstable, it continues to rise.  That's why you get these large "towers" that build up, and the quicker they rise, the stronger the storm they produce.  As the air continues to rise, it begins to mix with the surrounding environment and above a certain level (the Equilibrium Level, EL) the air becomes stable (cooler than the environment).  Different pockets of air continue to rise  at different rates, and that causes the fluffy nature nearer the top of these clouds.\n\nCumulus are different from stratus and cirrus because they indicate large vertical motion and have a very distinct structure to them.\n\nBasically you could even think of a cumulus cloud as like blowing a balloon upwards.  The bottom is all at one defined spot, while as the air moves into the balloon, it spreads out.  In a cloud the rising air also mixes in different proportions with the environmental air, causing the unique shapes higher up in the cloud.  Hope that helped.  If it's not clear, let me know! :-)
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It has to do with moisture saturation.  Big tall clouds have this unlike the thin high cirrus clouds.