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
The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
Brilliant red, orange and scarlet sunsets often take place in the presence of higher cirrus or altocumulus clouds instead of low-level clouds such as stratus or stratocumulus.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
The wind-shear phenomenon can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
It was still clear, but a thin, wispy scum of cirrus had spread across the upper atmosphere, and a dark line of squalls was visible just above the southwestern horizon.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
They are constructed like ordinary Cirripedia, and have a mouth, thorax and cirri, enclosed in a capitulum, supported on a peduncle of moderate length and narrow.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Gibbula, with jaws, three pairs of epipodial cirri without pigment spots at their bases, British.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
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 Darwin, Charles
In some specimens well preserved in spirits, the sack and cirri were purplish-brown or lead-colour, tinted with dirty green, or orange, or bright yellow, or brick-red.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
The reader will find in the general plates representations of several kinds of cirri.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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