The volcanoes of the remote South Sandwich Islands make an ideal natural laboratory for studying how airborne particles alter clouds.
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An image from the remote South Sandwich Islands shows how volcanic emissions can create clouds, while the islands themselves deform those clouds.
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Actinoform clouds pop up off the western coast of Australia.
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False-color imagery pulls out a volcanic plume from marine-layer clouds over the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Whether a patch of clouds contains open or closed cells offers a clue about whether rain is falling below.
Acquired April 17, 2010, this natural-color image shows a network of open- and closed-cell clouds over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru.
They may look like airplane contrails, but the streaky clouds shown in this photo-like image formed around the exhaust left in the wake of ships traveling along the northwest coast of North America.
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Satellite images separated by 50 years show actinoform clouds over the Pacific Ocean.
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Whether a smoke or dust plume has a heating—or cooling—effect on the atmosphere can depend on whether it is above clouds.
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