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Cloud Types

Cloud Types. Dr. Dave Dempsey Professor of Meteorology Department of Geosciences San Francisco State University. Steam fog on lake surface. Lassen National Park, CA ~ 6,000 ft. elevation October clear night. Steam devil (steam fog). Yellowstone National Park, WY

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Cloud Types

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  1. Cloud Types Dr. Dave Dempsey Professor of Meteorology Department of Geosciences San Francisco State University

  2. Steam fog on lake surface Lassen National Park, CA ~ 6,000 ft. elevation October clear night

  3. Steam devil (steam fog) YellowstoneNational Park, WY geothermal hot pool breeze blowing across pool

  4. Steam devil (steam fog) YellowstoneNational Park, WY geothermal hot pool breeze blowing across pool

  5. Port Townsend, Washington Mixing clouds

  6. Contrail andaltocumulus clouds Olympic Mts., WA

  7. Contrails Mt. St. Helens, WA taken May 20, 1979 mountain erupted May 18, 1980

  8. Eastern Sierra Nevada Mts. and Mono Lake, CA Contrails

  9. Radiation fog andaltostratus clouds Santa Rosa Valley, CA April pre-dawn clear night

  10. Santa Rosa Valley, CA (sunrise, April) Radiation fog

  11. Central Valley near Chico, CA (morning in December; clear night) Radiation fog

  12. Central Valley near Chico, CA(morning in December; clear night) Radiation fog

  13. Central Valley near Chico, CA(morning in December; clear night) Radiation fog

  14. San Francisco Peninsula,Crystal Springs Reservoir (June) Advection fog

  15. San Francisco Peninsula(looking southwest; June) Advection fog

  16. San Francisco (June) Advection fog

  17. Advection fog San Francisco (June)

  18. Advection fog Golden Gate,San Francisco June

  19. Stratus clouds(marine push) North CascadesNational Park, WA ~ 6,000 ft. elevation well inland from Puget Sound

  20. Cirrus clouds Western Colorado

  21. Cirrus clouds Acoma Pueblo, NM

  22. Cirrocumulus clouds Baja California

  23. Cirrostratus (halo, arcs, etc.) Mt. Everest, Nepal

  24. Mid- and high-level clouds Mono Lake, CA

  25. Mid- and high-level clouds Mono Lake, CA

  26. Altocumulus clouds Point Reyes, CA (Sept.)

  27. Altocumulus clouds Western Colorado (June)

  28. Altocumulus & cumulus clouds Death Valley, CA (March)

  29. Altocumulus clouds • Chico, CA • Daisies • summer

  30. Stratocumulus (roll) clouds Boulder, Colorado

  31. Fairweather cumulus clouds S.E. Utah (May)

  32. Stratocumulus clouds Mono Lake, CA (Aug.)

  33. Cumulus clouds Crater Lake N.P, Oregon (July)

  34. Cumulus cloud San Luis Valley, Colorado (June)

  35. Cumulus clouds Eastern Colorado (June)

  36. Cumulonimbus & cumulus clouds Eastern Utah (July)

  37. Cumulonimbus & cumulus clouds Western Colorado (July)

  38. Cumulonimbus cloud Eastern Utah (July)

  39. Cumulonimbus cloud with anvil Death Valley N.P., CA (March)

  40. Cumulonimbus cloud with anvil Death Valley N.P., CA (March)

  41. Cumulonimbus cloud with anvil Mojave desert, CA(March)

  42. Cumulonimbus cloud, snowing Northern New Mexico (Feb.)

  43. Cumulus cloud with rotating mesocyclone Eastern Colorado (May)

  44. Cumulus cloud w/rotating mesocyclone, dust updraft Eastern Colorado (May)

  45. Cumulus cloud w/wall cloud, tornado North Texas (May)

  46. Mammatus clouds beneath cumulus anvil Yellowstone N.P., WY (June)

  47. Virga (evaporating rain) S.E. Utah (August)

  48. Pileus cap cloud on cumulus cloud • Cirrus clouds

  49. Orographic wave clouds (lens clouds) Baja California (Feb.)

  50. Cap cloud Mt. St. Helens, WA (May 1979, before it’sMay 1980 eruption)

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