what are the names of the 4 differents clouds?
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There are many more than 4 types of clouds, but in elementary classes they teach that the 4 types are:\n\n1. cumulus\n2. stratus\n3. cirrus\n4. nimbus\n\n\nIf you want to see a much longer list, I have included a reference. \n\nThis reference lists the following 4 types of clouds:\n\nA. High clouds\nB. Middle clouds\nC. Low clouds\nD. Vertical clouds\n\nI am not sure that this is a particularly useful classification system. \n\nI find it interesting that there is still a lot we do not know about clouds. Clouds can both heat and cool the surface. Not all clouds are even composed of condensed water vapor. Current theories of the ozone depletion mechanism rely on the existence of stratospheric polar clouds that are probably not composed ice crystals, but  nitric acid and water, probably in the form of crystals of nitric acid trihydrate ("NAT"), HNO3.3(H2O) (see second reference).
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The clouds that form at the highest level in the troposphere are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus.
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All types of clouds can be found throught the year in St. Paul, Minnesota. I can't name them all, but go to the weather channel. They have all kinds of information.
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These are the cloud types:\n\nHigh-Level Clouds\nCloud types include: cirrus and cirrostratus.\n\nMid-Level Clouds\nCloud types include: altocumulus, altostratus.\n\nLow-Level Clouds\nCloud types include: nimbostratus and stratocumulus.\n\nClouds with Vertical Development\nCloud types include: fair weather cumulus and cumulonimbus.\n\nOther Cloud Types\nCloud types include: contrails, billow clouds, mammatus, orographic and pileus clouds.
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Clouds are characterized by their height.  Low, medium, high, and extensive vertical development.  Then they are given prefixes and suffixes such as "nimbus" for rain clouds, and "alto" for low clouds, just to name a couple.  There are two main types of clouds: Cumulus (which are the puffy white ones)are associated with an unstable atmosphere, good visibility, and intermitten precipitation. Stratus (which are long and skinny) on the other hand are associated with a stable atmosphere, poor visibility, and steady precipitation.
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A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.\n\nOn Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, they are visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light very efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the cloud, hence the grey or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, however, clouds would appear very dark because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorbs solar radiation at these wavelengths.\n\nCloud formation and properties\nClouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways:\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen:\n* along warm and cold fronts (frontal lift)\n* where air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift)\n* by the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating)\n* when warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.\n\n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation point.\n\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However, the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of the relatively warm air holding the droplets is low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keeping it suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This gives these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into the warmer air beneath the cloud.\nCumulonimbus cloud\nEnlarge\nCumulonimbus cloud\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important means is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals; these crystals precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet falls through the smaller droplets which surround it, it produces a "wake" which draws some of the smaller droplets into collisions, perpetuating the process. This meth
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What are clouds?\nA cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air. \n\nHow are clouds formed?\nAll air contains water, but near the ground it is usually in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor. When warm air rises, it expands and cools. Cool air can't hold as much water vapor as warm air, so some of the vapor condenses onto tiny pieces of dust that are floating in the air and forms a tiny droplet around each dust particle. When billions of these droplets come together they become a visible cloud. \n\nWhy are clouds white?\nClouds are white because they reflect the light of the sun. Light is made up of colors of the rainbow and when you add them all together you get white. The sun appears a yellow color because it sends out more yellow light than any other color. Clouds reflect all the colors the exact same amount so they look white.\n\nWhy do clouds turn gray?\nClouds are made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, usually a mixture of both. The water and ice scatter all light, making clouds appear white. If the clouds get thick enough or high enough all the light above does not make it through, hence the gray or dark look. Also, if there are lots of other clouds around, their shadow can add to the gray or multicolored gray appearance.\n \nWhy do clouds float?\nA cloud forms when air heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly cools it reaches the saturation point and water condenses, forming a cloud. As long as the cloud and the air that its made of is warmer than the outside air around it, it floats!\n\nHow do clouds move?\nClouds move with the wind. High cirrus clouds are pushed along by the jet stream, sometimes traveling at more than 100 miles-per-hour. When clouds are part of a thunderstorm they usually travel at 30 to 40
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There are 3 debri clouds in our solar system.  The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.  Another cloud, the Kuiper Belt, lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.  Far beyond that, the Oort Cloud lies at the very edge of intersellar space.  The closer two belts lie pretty close to the plane of the ecliptic.  The Oort Cloud is scattered 360 degrees around the Sun.
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Gas cloud, Read further:\n\nNebula\n\nOriginally "nebula" (Greek for "cloud"; plur. nebulae) was a sort of catch-all name for any extended astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This occasionally survives, but the stricter modern term is used for interstellar clouds of dust and gas, which are categorized by how they are illuminated.\n\nSome types of nebula have special names, such as dark nebulae, emission nebulae, planetary nebulae, reflection nebulae, and solar nebulae. \n\nFollow the links in the source links below for more info on nebulae\n\nst
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Clouds are water vapor. Think of it like a pocket of fog in the sky.
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They are shaped by the wind and heat.\nSee in\nhttp://allaboutweather.tripod.com/cloudclassification.htm
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broom,stars,shadow,eye,coin,mouth,clouds
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Cloud reading is a fascinating hobby, and a life-saving ability for sailors, mountain climbers and others who find themselves in the wide open spaces. \nYou need to learn about basic kinds of clouds -- the various types of cumulus clouds,for example -- and how they react in your geographical area. Clouds interact with mountains and with water. They load up when they travel over a body of water (the ocean, a lake, etc.) and when they meet a mountain they have to rise to go over it. So, they drop their water. That gives you rain on one side of the mountain and dry conditions on the other side. \nA good place to learn about clouds is from your local weather center (check the nearest airport for the meteorological station closest to you) or you might even give your local TV weatherman a call.
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airborne:  mist, fog, steam, rain\nFresh water: lake, stream, creek, pond
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Are you for real? Do you really think the clouds can be on the other side of the sun? The sun is 93 million miles away. Our atmosphere ends, for all practical purposes 150 or so miles up. After that is outer space. Clouds do not exist outside of the atmosphere. \nNow just maybe this is a trick question and you are meaning nebular clouds or clouds around other planets. If so then yes there are always clouds on the other side of the sun.
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This question is difficult to answer because is diffuclt to define things precisely. If we consider cumulus clouds we gotta consider they are different sizes and some are broken in more pieaces. But there are many types of clouds , like for example consider the nimbus clouds (storm clouds) that might cover the whole of the sky for an area 100 kilometres \nin any direction.\nTalking about the weight of a cloud is not sure what the meaning is. Are we referring to just the weight of the ice crystals in the cloud, or do we also include the weight of the air contained in the cloud. \nHowever the  avarage weight of a cloud can be determined or more corectly said estimated in 2 ways . \nThe first and easiest is by thinking about the rainfall it might. For example, studies showed that  a volume of 200 000 cubic metres of water would weigh 200 000 tonnes \nproduce.\nThe other way of estimating the weight of the cloud is a bit harder and it considers the water content of the parcel of air it comes from. For example, studies showed that the ice in a lump of cloud that comes from an air parcel about 1 km long by 1 km wide by 200 m thick turns out to weigh 1 600 to 3 200 tonnes.\nIf you have ever looked at satellite photographs of cloud, you will have seen tropical cyclones (hurricanes), where a bank of unbroken cloud stretches for perhaps 300 to 500 km or even 1000 km in all directions from the centre of the storm. If you regard these as single clouds, then they are huge. Wispy, high altitude clouds, on the other hand, can be really very thin and light.
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no clouds are not solid they are made  up of water  vapor and gas. Clouds are formed when air contains as much water vapor (gas) as it can hold. This is called the saturation point, and it can be reached in two ways. First, moisture accumulates until it reaches the maximum amount the volume of air can hold. The other method reduces the temperature of the moisture filled air, which in turn lowers the amount of moisture it can contain. Saturation, therefore, is reached through evaporation and condensation, respectively. When saturation occurs, moisture becomes visible water droplets in the form of fog and clouds.\n\nIt should be noted that condensation by itself does not cause precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, hail). The moisture in clouds must become heavy enough to succumb to gravity and return to earth's surface. This occurs through two processes. In cold clouds ice crystals and water droplets exist side by side. Due to an imbalance of water vapor pressure, the water droplets transfer to the ice crystals. The crystal seventually grow heavy enough to fall to earth. In the second process, water droplets in warm clouds collide and change their electric charge.Droplets of unlike charge attract one another and merge, thereby growing until they have sufficient weight to fall.\n\nThere is no difference between fog and clouds other than altitude. Fog is defined as a visible moisture that begins at a height lower than 50 feet. If the visible moisture begins at or above 50 feet, it is called a cloud. Two common types of fog are called radiation fog and advection fog. Radiation fog forms during the night as the earth's surface cools and the air immediately above it cools in turn by conduction. If the air is moist enough, the cooling causes it to reach saturation and visible water droplets form. We often call this type of fog ground fog because it lies so close to the surface. Advection fog forms when warm moist air moves over a colder surface (advection means to move horizontally). A perfect example is on the west coast of continents. Prevailing westerly winds move moist air from over a warm ocean area to over the colder waters off the coast. Fog forms and is carried by the westerly over the land.\n\nClouds can form anywhere in the troposphere, and although condensed liquid, they are light enough to float in the air and move from place to place by the wind. Clouds are classified according to appearance and height. Based on appearance, there are two major types: Clouds of vertical development, formed by the condensation of rising air; and clouds that are layered, formed by condensation of air without vertical movement. When clouds are classified by height, there are four classes: high, middle, low, and vertical development.\n\nCloud names, of which there are twelve, combine appearance and height. A brief description of the root name will indicate this combination of features.