Stratocumulus clouds rarely have a depth of more than a few thousand feet. ... The color infrared satellite imagery confirms that the temperature of the cloud tops is minus-14 degrees Celsius, ...

A beautiful vortex street disrupts a layer of stratocumulus clouds low enough to be affected by the island, which rises a mile above sea level. ... and the band of color is around 37 miles wide.

Stratocumulus: Gray or whitish patchy, sheet, or layered clouds that almost always have a honeycomb pattern. They can also look like rounded masses, or rolls. They are low-level clouds.

Some are low-level clouds that exist below 6,500 feet, such as cumulus, stratus, and stratocumulus. Others are mid-level—including altocumulus, nimbostratus, and altostratus—and appear between ...

Stratocumulus clouds lie at low-altitudes below 6000 feet, and are highly reflective. They cover about 20% of the low-latitude oceans, or 6.5% of Earth’s surface.

These strange clouds are actually rather common: On average, 23 percent of the global oceans are covered with marine stratocumulus clouds, equating to around 15 percent of Earth's total surface ...

Stratocumulus clouds are Earth’s most common cloud and cover about 20 percent tropical oceans — reflecting between 30 and 60 percent of shortwave radiation back into space.

Tommy from Rock Island wants to know why some clouds are white and others are gray. The color of a cloud depends on three things: the sun, how thick the cloud is, and where you are standing. If ...

According to the study, entitled Possible Climate Transitions from Breakup of Stratocumulus Decks under Greenhouse Warming, decks of stratocumulus clouds, which cover about 20 percent of the low ...

Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide could lead to the disappearance of stratocumulus cloud decks. This could result in global temperatures increasing by 8 degrees Celsius—on ...