NOUN
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
How To Use cirrus cloud In A Sentence
- Cirrus clouds indicated the distant approach of a trough, both in the surface and upper air.
- In the troposphere, water exists as vapor in air, as liquid droplets in clouds, and as frozen ice particles in high altitude cirrus clouds.
- However, high, wispy cirrus clouds, that can have relatively large droplets, do not reflect solar light very effectively, but will almost completely reflect longwave infrared radiation. Aerosols
- We were holding formation real well in cirrus clouds when the division leader "chickened out" just north of Hamburg and gave the recall. THE BOMBING OF SWITZERLAND
- Thin strands of cirrus cloud glowed red as the sun rose.
- On the other hand, even tenuous cirrus clouds absorb significant amounts of thermal infrared radiation emitted by the ground and the lower atmosphere.
- A higher-tech solution would be to put lots of reflective mylar in low-earth orbit; a lower-tech solution would be to scatter lots of ping-pong balls in tropical waters; an extremely cute solution, if practicable, would be to stimulate the formation of cirrus clouds over parts of the Pacific Ocean. How to Fight Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- There were some high cirrus clouds earlier and it looks like they're coming back, but, for the most part, it's just been beautiful.
- The purpose of the mission was to study cirrus clouds, to improve forecasts of future climate change.
- Over a distant horizon line, cirrus clouds fill the summer sky.
