Clouds - How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms

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A one-of-a-kind illustrated guide to clouds, cloud formations, and the artists who painted them... Show more

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Author	Edward Graham
Language	English
ISBN	9780691262482
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Pages	224
Size	27 x 21.2 cm
Format	Hardcover
Images	140 Colour illustrations
Year published	2025

The mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike. Clouds is an unique book that shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes. It curates, classifies, and measures every species—including those recently discovered—considering the height, size, texture, arrangement, modifications, and movement of their many shifting forms. Clouds blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today’s leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.

Presents a “taxonomic” approach to identification, applying the basic laws of geometry to quantify and measure clouds and cloud formations
Showcases artists who painted clouds from a scientific viewpoint, such as John Constable, Frederic Edwin Church, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David Friedrich
Tells the stories of the physicists and painters who have attempted to record the many different incarnations of clouds
Explains the physics of clouds, from the basic constituents of Earth’s atmosphere to cloud formation and dissipation, the colors and shades of clouds, the development of precipitation, and the timescale evolution of clouds
Discusses the classification and naming of clouds
Serves as a user-friendly reference guide to low, midlevel, and high cloud species
Includes charts, infographics, and a glossary of terms

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