• Mountains and Clouds is a sculpture by Alexander Calder located in the Hart Senate Office Building. The Hart Senate Office Building, first occupied in...
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    dominated by the sculptural work Mountains and Clouds by Alexander Calder. The upper part of the work consists of a mobile, "Clouds", made from curved aluminum...
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    orographic clouds (clouds that develop over mountains) has been seasonally increased by about 10%." Despite the mixed scientific results, cloud seeding was...
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    temperature. Clouds are seen in the Earth's homosphere, which includes the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. Nephology is the science of clouds, which...
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    Lenticular clouds (Latin: Lenticularis lentil-shaped, from lenticula lentil) are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel...
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    Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 m (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed...
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    National Recreation Area (SNRA) and partially within the Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wilderness. The White Cloud Mountains are located on National Forest...
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    Alexander Calder (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    tall, monumental sculpture, Paris La Défense France Mountains and Clouds (1976), painted aluminum and steel, 612 inches x 900 inches, Hart Senate Office...
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    Cumulus clouds are clouds that have flat bases and are often described as puffy, cotton-like, or fluffy in appearance. Their name derives from the Latin...
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    and Clouds, and Savages] (in Japanese). Tokyo: 中央公論社. Kano Tadao [鹿野忠雄] (Feb 2000) [original in Aug 1941]. 山、雲與蕃人 [And Mountains, and Clouds, and Savages]...
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    Perth, Western Australia, and the Golden Cloud in the 1990s. Inbreeding of Golden Clouds have resulted in "Blonde" Clouds, light yellow specimens similar...
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  • 187 missions was sent to seed clouds in the UAE with each aircraft taking about three hours to target five to six clouds at a cost of $3,000 per operation...
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  • the Mountain in the Cloud is the sixth studio album by American rock band Portugal. The Man. It was recorded over a period of eight months, and produced...
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    wave cloud into the more stable air above. Wave clouds are typically mid- to upper-tropospheric ice clouds. They are relatively easy to study, because they...
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    can also form above mountains, ash clouds, and pyrocumulus clouds from erupting volcanoes. Pilei form above some mushroom clouds of high-yield nuclear...
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    objects, including mountains and clouds. Volatile terpenoids emitted in large quantities by the abundant eucalyptus trees in the Blue Mountains may cause Mie...
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    (2011). "Nacreous and polar stratospheric clouds". Atmospheric optics, atoptics.co.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2014. Clouds Online (2012). "Cloud Atlas". Retrieved...
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    The Battle of Lookout Mountain also known as the Battle Above the Clouds was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American...
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    The Porcupine Mountains, or Porkies, are a group of small mountains spanning the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties...
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    Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds formed by...
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    These are clouds, typically Cumulus humilis or Cumulus mediocris, which are considered as fair weather clouds. Characteristic for trade wind clouds is the...
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    cirrus clouds. There are two other high-level cirrus-like clouds called cirrostratus and cirrocumulus. Cirrostratus looks like a sheet of cloud, whereas...
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    Lake of the Clouds is a lake located in Ontonagon County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan within the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness...
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    Seal of Colorado (category Coats of arms with mountains)
    authority and leadership. Below the fasces is a heraldic shield bearing across the top a red sky behind three snow-capped mountains and clouds above them...
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    Ural Mountains (/ˈjʊərəl/ YOOR-əl; Russian: Уральские горы, tr. Urál'skiye góry, IPA: [ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ]), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range...
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    Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are called...
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    Lee wave (redirect from Rotor cloud)
    lenticular clouds above. Rotor clouds have ragged leeward edges and are dangerously turbulent. A foehn wall cloud may exist at the lee side of the mountains, however...
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    Kordylewski clouds does not rule out their existence, since the probe revolved around each Lagrange point for only one loop and could have missed the clouds. The...
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    Huangshan (redirect from Huang Mountains)
    the clouds from above, known as the Sea of Clouds (Chinese: 云海; pinyin: yúnhǎi) or "Huangshan Sea" because of the cloud's resemblance to an ocean, and many...
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    visible condensation cloud appears. Most tornadoes begin as funnel clouds, but some funnel clouds do not make surface contact and these cannot be counted...
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