Description

DescriptionReeds Cloud Handbook is a quick-access, easy-to-use guide to identifying cloud types and how to predict what each cloud type can tell us about the weather and predict how it will change.Reeds Cloud Handbook pocket reference will appeal to those who spend time outdoors and wants to better understand the weather, with its principal focus for sailors and also anyone going walking, fishing, cycling etc. This portable handbook will give you the essential information about common and unusual cloud types, how they form and what weather patterns are associated with them.Fully illustrated with color photography and clear diagrams, this cloud identification guide includes sections on different weather patterns and how clouds form, different clouds according to where they appear in the sky, related features and different forms of fog. Each entry gives guidance on how and when to spot different cloud types and effects, and how the clouds relate to wind and rain patterns.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the weatherHow to use this bookA brief introduction to the cloudsDeciphering cloud namesA bit of historyWeather systemsAir massesDepressionsAnticyclonesHigh cloudsCirrusThick cirrus (cirrus spissatus)CirrostratusCirrocumulusContrails (cirrus homogenitus)Middle cloudsAltocumulus floccusAltocumulus castellanusAltocumulus sheets (altocumulus stratiformis)Altocumulus lenticularisThin altostratus (altostratus translucidus)Thick altostratus (altostratus opacus)Lower cloudsCumulusCumulus fractusFair weather cumulus (cumulus humilis)Towering cumulus (cumulus congestus)Cumulus cloud streets (cumulus radiatus)Featureless stratus (stratus nebulosus)Broken stratus (stratus fractus)StratocumulusStratocumulus stratiformisStratocumulus castellanusNimbostratusCumulonimbus calvusCumulonimbus capillatusThunderstormsSupplementary features and accessory cloudsSupplementary featuresAsperitasMammaFall streaks (virga)Anvil (incus)Funnel cloud (tuba)Shelf and roll clouds (arcus)Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (fluctus)Accessory cloudsCap clouds (pileus)PannusVelumFogSea fog (advection fog)Land fog (radiation fog)Upslope fogFrontal fogSea smokeClouds outside the troposphereNacreous (mother of pearl)NoctilucentOptical phenomenaRainbowCoronaHaloMock sun/sun dog/parhelionIridescenceIce rainbow (circumzenithal arc)Sunbeams and crepuscular raysGloryCloud weather loreGlossaryQuick cloud identifierIndex