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The World Meteorological Organization has announced that a new edition of the International Cloud Atlas has been released following three years of hard work. The International Cloud Atlas is the world’s reference for the identification and classification of clouds and other meteorological meteors.
First published over a century ago in 1896, the Atlas has not experienced many updates. There have been numerous fundamental changes in our world since the most recent in 1975/1987 (Volume I/Volume II), including the emergence of the Internet and the invention of cellular phones with cameras. Important advancements in scientific understanding, too, have come about. The time was ripe for a new version.
Today’s high-quality cameras and modern technology can deliver an abundance of excellent photographic examples of clouds and all other meteorological phenomena, providing better images for the Atlas than ever before. This allows us to present more phenomena, and to illustrate variation in their appearance with different locations and viewing conditions.
In an age where the Internet has become a primary resource, the new edition will also give the Cloud Atlas a strong online presence. Without this, many alternative atlases have appeared online. This threatens the global standardization of cloud classification, which is one of the primary reasons for the existence of the International Cloud Atlas.
[...] The new, 2017 edition of the International Cloud Atlas brings this important document into the digital era. It provides professional and amateur observers of clouds and other meteors with an online resource that can be used as a reference, a training tool and a source of stunning images and descriptions. In addition, it updates and strengthens the language used to classify and report cloud and meteor observations, ensuring the consistency and clear communication that is essential to this field.
You can access the 2017 International Cloud Atlas at www.wmocloudatlas.org
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 06 2017, @05:07AM (3 children)
That site won't do anything without JavaScript. As replacement for a printed work, this is absolutely unnecessary.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday September 06 2017, @06:17AM (2 children)
I always found basic meteorologic knowledge as one of the most important for the common man survivalist skills. Hell even outside surviving it is nice to look to the sky and understand what "he" means (in my native language there is not it and the sky is masculine).
Unfortunately, I never had the patience to know the star map so I could never do this trick of being with a girl and point her the stars. On the other hand I was able to look at a cloud and describe what it was and what it likely meant. A nice conversation about imagination normally ensued and this led to a nice setting.
Cumulus nimbus are pretty violent in their insides so we can talk about how big a hail stone can be flying there. Another funny question which most people do not know the answer to is: How do clouds form? Such a simple yet unknown phenomena.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday September 06 2017, @06:50AM (1 child)
> How do clouds form?
They form when the big IT corp. managers realize grid computing and storage would have left too much power to the consumer and decide to revert to the mainframe days, with the term cloud correctly representing the fuzzy and foggy internals of the system.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 06 2017, @09:59AM
And now they put the International Cloud Atlas in the cloud.