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administrator:

--- Quote from: NorCal Dan on January 28, 2012, 03:15:07 PM ---Now you have me wondering what causes clouds to stop at a certain altitude?

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The same things that make them appear at certain altitudes?

Weather Display:

--- Quote ---Now you have me wondering what causes clouds to stop at a certain altitude?
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if you are not meaning a CB hitting the troposhere (where the temperature starts to get warmer again)
and instead are refering to mid height clouds
then the answer is inversion layers (i.e it hits a layer of air above that is warmer)
often called capping
if the heating is strong enough then it can break through this cap

often anticyclones have inversion layers, i.e colder air trapped underneath the warming sinking air

embayweather:
Worth looking at Radiosonde plots to get a better understanding of cloud structure, base and tops. I found trying the RAOB demonstration program at
http://www.raob.com/, worth trying too. Even if you never buy the program itself there are a lot of things you can learn from it. The though looks amazing program looks amazing and does just what it says on the tin and more. I am hoping to buy it this year.

Best wishes

Mike

nurul:
Hi..
I am postgraduate student and I am doing research on meteorology by using remote sensing technique. Is there have any formula to estimated cloud top pressure besides using Ideal gases law?

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