where could i find information on clouds?
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A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.\n\nOn Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, they are visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light very efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the cloud, hence the grey or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, however, clouds would appear very dark because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorbs solar radiation at these wavelengths.\n\nCloud formation and properties\nClouds 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* along warm and cold fronts (frontal lift)\n* where air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift)\n* by the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating)\n* when warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.\n\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 point.\n\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However, the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of the relatively warm air holding the droplets is low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keeping it suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This gives these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into the warmer air beneath the cloud.\nCumulonimbus cloud\nEnlarge\nCumulonimbus cloud\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important means is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals; these crystals precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet falls through the smaller droplets which surround it, it produces a "wake" which draws some of the smaller droplets into collisions, perpetuating the process. This meth
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http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391915&cat=2_4\n\nIs that what you are looking for?
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http://weather.yahoo.com/regional/DRXX.html\nhttp://www.wunderground.com/global/DR.html\nhttp://weather.noaa.gov/weather/DO_cc.html\nhttp://www.weather.com/common/drilldown/DR.html
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Try googleearth ... my husband finds it excellent.  also try weather forecasting sites such as wunderground.
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Clouds are formed when water vapour in the air is cooled and condenses as part of the water cycle. Clouds consist of billions of tiny water droplets (and even ice crystals) floating in the sky and appear in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on how and where they formed.
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Four general types, and a few subcategories of those:\n\nLatin Root \ncumulus \nstratus\ncirrus\nnimbus\n\nHigh-Level Clouds \nCloud types include: cirrus and cirrostratus. \nMid-Level Clouds \nCloud types include: altocumulus, altostratus. \n\nLow-Level Clouds \nCloud types include: nimbostratus and stratocumulus. \n\nClouds with Vertical Development \nCloud types include: fair weather cumulus and cumulonimbus. \n\nOther Cloud Types \nCloud types include: contrails, billow clouds, mammatus, orographic and pileus clouds.
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Just search http://images.google.com for "sky background"
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How Temperature Affects the Formation of Clouds\n\nor perhaps you have some interesting results from your project, like "Cooler Temperatures Increase Cloud Height" - or whatever you have found out from doing your project that you think is interesting!!!
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Try http://www.infospace.com
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wikipedia.com\n\n\nA cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology that studies clouds is nephology.\n\nOn Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water (typically 0.01 mm of ice crystals) that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Clouds reflect all visible wavelengths of light equally and are usually white, but they can appear grey or even black if they are so thick or dense that sunlight cannot pass through.\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 Cloud formation and properties\n          o 1.1 "Hot Ice" and "Ice Memory" in cloud formation\n    * 2 Cloud classification\n          o 2.1 High clouds (Family A)\n          o 2.2 Middle clouds (Family B)\n          o 2.3 Low clouds (Family C)\n          o 2.4 Vertical clouds (Family D)\n          o 2.5 Other clouds\n          o 2.6 Cloud fields\n    * 3 Colors of clouds\n    * 4 Global dimming\n    * 5 Global brightening\n    * 6 Clouds on other planets\n    * 7 See also\n    * 8 External links\n\n[edit]\n\nCloud formation and properties\nA variety of cloud formations.\nEnlarge\nA variety of cloud formations.\nGlobal scheme of cloud optical thickness.\nEnlarge\nGlobal scheme of cloud optical thickness.\n\nClouds 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\n    * along warm and cold fronts (frontal lift),\n    * where air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift),\n    * by the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating),\n    * when warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.\n\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\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of the relatively warm air holding the droplets is low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keep it suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This give these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into in the warmer air beneath the cloud.\nCumulonimbus cloud\nEnlarge\nCumulonimbus cloud\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet f
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Cloud reading is a fascinating hobby, and a life-saving ability for sailors, mountain climbers and others who find themselves in the wide open spaces. \nYou need to learn about basic kinds of clouds -- the various types of cumulus clouds,for example -- and how they react in your geographical area. Clouds interact with mountains and with water. They load up when they travel over a body of water (the ocean, a lake, etc.) and when they meet a mountain they have to rise to go over it. So, they drop their water. That gives you rain on one side of the mountain and dry conditions on the other side. \nA good place to learn about clouds is from your local weather center (check the nearest airport for the meteorological station closest to you) or you might even give your local TV weatherman a call.
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Check http://www.wunderground.com/sky/index.asp
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At least, www.weather.com has the information for your city, for example:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/EGXX0008?x=13&lswe=Hurghada&lswa=WeatherLocalUndeclared&y=11\n\nor try the international search from:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/common/welcomepage/world.html?from=globalnav&ref=/\n\nThen, there is a service for your website at:\n\nhttp://www.weather.com/services/oap.html?from=homewxanywhere\n\nbut I don't sure if it offers the same locations of the web world search.\n\nYou can visit too:\n\nhttp://www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?config=&forecast=pass&pass=tafINT
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NASA's global hydrology and climate center may be what your looking for.\n\nhttp://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/
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Most of the Weather Channels have websites, look under statistics. You can also try the Science department at many schools. (Telephone)
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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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http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html