The cloud collector's handbook

Description

The perfect incentive for keeping your head in the clouds, The Cloud Collector's Handbook is a whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky. Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and useful book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase a new type of cloud on every spread, from fluffy cumulus to the super rare horseshoe vortex to the wispy noctilucent clouds that hang at the fringes of space. Sure to be a hit with both aspiring and seasoned cloud gazers, this clever handbook will have everyone looking up Content: Ten main cloud types. Cumulus Stratocumulus Stratus Altocumulus Altostratus Cirrus Cirrocumulus Cirrostratus Nimbostratus Cumulonimbus -- Notable species & varieties. Lenticularis Fibratus Castellanus Undulatus Lacunosus Radiatus Duplicatus -- Accessory clouds & supplementary features. Pileus Velum Pannus Mamma Virga Arcus Tuba Incus -- Other clouds. Cap & banner Kelvin-Helmholtz Contrails Pyrocumulus Roll cloud Fallstreak hole Horseshoe vortex Fog & mist Diamond dust Nacreous Noctilucent -- Cloud optical effects. Iridescence Corona Crepuscular rays Glory Rainbow Cloudbow & fogbow 22 ̊ halo Sundog Circumzenithal arc Sun pillars -- Technical terms -- Cloud classification.