Comments on: Where did the rain come from? http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2006/09/28/where-did-the-rain-come-from/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-did-the-rain-come-from Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: nam linh chi http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2006/09/28/where-did-the-rain-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-33631 nam linh chi Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:07:52 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=16#comment-33631 Great post! I’ll be back to get useful information.Tks u!

]]> By: peggy http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2006/09/28/where-did-the-rain-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-52 peggy Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:35:19 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=16#comment-52 Hi Jaga,

Thanks for the questions! You have given me an idea for my next blog. I’ll talk more about how you find the speed of drops — and also hailstones!

Clouds are really hard to recognize, because of course there are many more than ten kinds. To see more clouds on the GLOBE web site, you can go to the “Educators Corner” and click on the “Cloud Protocol — Online Teaching Module. Also, the “cloud quiz” will show you many types of clouds. All fit into the 10 types, but some fit better than others.

And don’t get discouraged if you don’t do very well on the cloud quiz the first time. I took the quiz with some students who were studying to be metoeorologists and we all did poorly. Why? Because some of the pictures weren’t very good. We removed the bad pictures from the quiz, but it might still be hard. For many reasons. First, it’s hard to identify clouds from pictures (even good ones). And seondly, as noted above — there are just so many kinds of clouds!

The cloud classification that GLOBE uses actually uses pretty well for Europe, since it was invented in England.

If you have questions about clouds — or have picture of a cloud you want me to identify — I would be glad to help.

]]> By: Jaga from Poland http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2006/09/28/where-did-the-rain-come-from/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Jaga from Poland Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:33:29 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=16#comment-50 Thank you very much for your explanation. It\’s really interesting for me. I am a beginner in GLOBE programme. I am wondering whether there is any posibility to measure the base of cloud. I am trying to recognize them (just 10 types in Globe programme) and it would be useful to know how far they are from the ground to narrow clouds down to middle, low, high type. According to your explanation the position of the same type of clouds is different in various places in the world so I have to find out what the pattern is in my latitude (Poland).

How did you assume that the speed of your raindrop was 8 m per second?

How is the speed of hail.. does bigger hail fall at a faster speed?

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