Let’s break down what the name means… Your basic, puffy white cloud is called cumulus humilis. They form via convection, meaning the ground heats up and warms the air closest to the surface of ...

For example, in the diagram below there are four Cumulus clouds: a) is Cumulus humilis, which is a species of cumulus having a short vertical extent; b) is Cumulus radiatus, a variety of cumulus ...

Caused by columns of warm air rising and cooling, small cotton wool-like clouds (cumulus humilis) are those of a fair weather day. Fair weather cumulus humilis clouds in Whitfield, Kent.

Fair-weather cumulus clouds contain an increasing amount of droplets formed around pollution particles. The new simulations, using data collected over Oklahoma, show how pollution from Oklahoma ...