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.

If CO2 levels rise above 1,200 ppm — where they’d be in roughly a century if emissions continue at the current rate — stratocumulus clouds would begin to disappear, according to the report.

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.

The clouds that live in this range are stratocumulus clouds, stratus clouds, and cumulus clouds. These clouds are associated with non-severe showers and light rain, and can also act as overcast ...

New insights on the prevalence of drizzle in marine stratocumulus clouds based on a machine learning algorithm applied to radar Doppler spectra." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 11 (2022).

Actinoform clouds generally form lower in the atmosphere (around 6,600 feet above Earth), over water, in areas where stratocumulus clouds are common.

Cloud science Stratocumulus clouds above the north-western Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan. (Courtesy: Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center) For all ...

According to the IPCC, climate forcing associated with aerosol-cloud interactions contributes the largest uncertainty to total radiative forcing estimates. Vertical profiles of aerosol and cloud ...

Objects floating in the sky have been in the news a lot lately, and many more will be seen over La Jolla in the next year.But these won’t be so mysterious. More than 1,400 weather balloons wi… ...