Reeds Cloud Handbook

Oliver Perkins

• Publisher: Reeds
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781472982070
• eBook ISBN: 9781472982124
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Meteorology & Climatology

Reeds 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. This concise 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 colour 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.

INDEX

Index

Note: italic page numbers indicate figures.

accessory clouds 66, 80–1, 80–1

air masses 12–13, 122

air pollution 14, 54

air pressure 12, 13, 70, 122

aircraft see contrails

altocumulus 7, 9, 10, 22, 26–33, 66, 70, 78, 102, 108, 112

altocumulus castellanus 27, 28–9, 29, 70

altocumulus floccus 26–7, 27, 70

altocumulus lenticularis 32–3, 33

altocumulus sheet (stratiformis) 30–1, 30–1

altostratus 7, 9, 10, 26, 34–7, 50, 68, 102, 108

altostratus radiatus 34

altostratus, thick (opacus) 34, 36–7, 37, 58

altostratus, thin (translucidus) 34–5, 35

anticyclones 14, 15, 122

anvil (incus) 8, 62, 64, 72–3, 73

arcus clouds 62, 76–7, 77

asperitas 8, 54, 66–7, 67

Brocken spectre 114, 115

cap cloud see pileus

capillatus 61, 62–3, 63

castellanus 16, 22, 27, 52, 56–7, 57, 70

cavum 22, 54

circumhorizontal arc 110, 111

circumzenithal...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction to the weather
• Weather systems
• High clouds
• Middle clouds
• Lower clouds
• Supplementary features and accessory clouds
• Fog
• Clouds outside the troposphere
• Optical phenomena
• Cloud weather lore
• Glossary
• Quick cloud identifier
• Index
• Photo credits
• eCopyright