cirrus
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The most likely explanation is the presence of thick but uneven water ice clouds, similar to cirrus clouds high in Earth's atmosphere -- an unexpected complication.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
Sun halos are optical illusions created when ice crystals form in the correct shape in the upper atmosphere, usually accompanying thin, wispy cirrus clouds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Some spread out and persist as high, thin cirrus clouds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses.
Males, two, lodged in cavities on the under sides of the scuta; pouch-formed, with four unequal, rudimentary valves: no mouth: cirri not prehensile.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Its significance is of greater humidity and is the first real confirmation of the earlier promise of the cirri.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
Pedicels of the first four cirri, caudal appendages, penis, the two posterior thoracic segments, the segments of the cirri, and the trophi, clouded, banded, or spotted, with blackish purple.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Olfactory orifices prominent, protected by a slight punctured swelling between the bases of the first pair of cirri.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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