Many of the high-altitude clouds called cirrus clouds are spawned by dust from Earth’s surface. Credit: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty ...

A recent airborne atmospheric sampling mission, the largest ever, found that dust-initiated cirrus clouds accounted for “34 to 71% of all cirrus clouds outside of the tropics.” While the Sahara Desert ...

Cirrus clouds form near the stratosphere — the second lowest layer of the atmosphere — and are composed of ice crystals. Observations and simulations by the team suggest that ice crystals ...

This phase change is called deposition. High clouds known as cirrus clouds are formed by this process. Snow is also formed by this process, which is called the Bergeron Process.

Cumulus clouds are the most familiar clouds in the Texas sky. These puffy clouds, which resemble gigantic popcorn floating in the sky, are formed from tons of water droplets. They can appear ...

FARGO — Cirrus clouds are the clouds with feathery tails. They are very high clouds, usually 20,000 to 30,000 feet above the ground, where the temperature is well below freezing.

Most clouds fit under four core categories: to the cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus. However, nacreous clouds are a cool phenomenon worth seeing.

image: Cirrus clouds in the atmosphere over the South China Sea (Location: Zhuhai, China) view more . Credit: Haorui Weng. The radiative climate and environmental effects of cirrus clouds is an ...