• singular motif in Sky with Flat White Cloud, Clouds 5/ Yellow Horizon and Clouds, Sky with Moon, and Sky Above Clouds / Yellow Horizon and Clouds. A darker variation...
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    obscured by clouds. At night, the Moon, planets, and stars are similarly visible in the sky. Some of the natural phenomena seen in the sky are clouds, rainbows...
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    series is capitalized as Sky Above Clouds but the singular work at The Art Institute of Chicago is stylized as "Sky above Clouds". She also said that she...
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    mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually...
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    Cloudscape (art) (category Clouds in culture)
    cloudscape paintings - for example, the Sky Above Clouds series by Georgia O'Keeffe - in which the clouds are seen from above, as though viewed from an airplane...
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    such clouds are present, pilots may climb above the cloud tops. However, glider pilots actively seek out the rising air to gain altitude. These clouds may...
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    black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds of light. In ancient times the stars were often assumed to be equidistant on a dome above the Earth...
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    clouds and does not rotate. Clouds initially form in clear air or become clouds when fog rises above surface level. The genus of a newly formed cloud...
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    cirrus clouds. There are two other high-level cirrus-like clouds called cirrostratus and cirrocumulus. Cirrostratus looks like a sheet of cloud, whereas...
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    commingling with the horizon and becoming indistinguishable from the cloud-filled sky. The painting is composed of various elements from the Elbe Sandstone...
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    Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance. Their name derives from the Latin...
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  • base of the lowest clouds (not to be confused with cloud base which has a specific definition) that cover more than half of the sky (more than 4 oktas)...
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    Cloud cover (also known as cloudiness, cloudage, or cloud amount) refers to the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds on average when observed from a...
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    Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are...
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    cirrus clouds. They sometimes appear as bands parallel to the edge of the clouds. Iridescence is also seen in the much rarer polar stratospheric clouds, also...
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    cirrostratus begins as fragmented of clouds in the sky it often means the front is weak. Cirrostratus is usually located above 5.5 km (18,000 ft). Its presence...
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    Overcast (category Clouds)
    Organization, is the meteorological condition of clouds obscuring at least 95% of the sky. However, the total cloud cover must not be entirely due to obscuring...
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    direct sunlight for relatively thin clouds down to 1⁄1000 of direct sunlight under the extreme of thickest storm clouds.[citation needed] One of the equations...
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    Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds formed by...
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    downdrafts within the cloud. Genitus mother clouds Altocumulus cumulogenitus Altocumulus cumulonimbogenitus Mutatus mother clouds Altocumulus cirrocumulomutatus...
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  • depict images of clouds viewed from above, suspended in blue sky, with the land below nowhere to be seen; it is the view of clouds regarded at a downward...
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    Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), about 163 kly (50 kpc) away Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), about 206 kly (63 kpc) away The Magellanic clouds are visible to...
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    English, this type of cloud has been referred to as a twain cloud for being a combination of two types of clouds. Stratocumulus clouds are rounded clumps...
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    instability, then the altocumulus clouds become more purely cumuliform in structure. Like other cumuliform and stratocumuliform clouds, altocumulus signifies convection...
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    astronomy Dark-sky movement The End of Night (book) International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) Light pollution Night sky Sky brightness Sky & Telescope (S&T)...
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    homosphere. Clouds consist of microscopic droplets of liquid water (warm clouds), tiny crystals of ice (cold clouds), or both (mixed phase clouds), along...
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    Lenticular clouds (Latin: Lenticularis lentil-shaped, from lenticula lentil) are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel...
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    Taieri Pet (category Clouds)
    form clouds. The Taieri Pet cloud formation can sometimes appear in layers and has been described as a "huge stack of plates" in the sky. The cloud is a...
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    (1917) New York skyscraper paintings (1925–1928) Hawaii series (1939) Sky Above Clouds series (1960–1977) Museums Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio (Abiquiú)...
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    orographic clouds (clouds that develop over mountains) has been seasonally increased by about 10%." Despite the mixed scientific results, cloud seeding was...
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