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Cloud (disambiguation)

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A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body.

Cloud may also refer to:

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[edit] Meteorology

  • Cloud albedo, measure of the reflectivity of a cloud
  • Cloud base, the lowest altitude of the visible portion of the cloud
  • Cloud cover, the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds when observed from a particular location
  • Cloud feedback, the coupling between cloudiness and surface air temperature in which a change in surface temperature could lead to a change in clouds
  • Cloud forcing, the difference between the radiation budget components for average cloud conditions and cloud-free conditions
  • Cloud physics, the area of study of physical processes that lead to the formation, growth and precipitation of clouds
  • Cloud seeding, the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls out of clouds he he

[edit] Astronomy

  • Interstellar cloud, generic name given to an accumulation of gas, plasma and dust in our and other galaxies
  • Kordylewski cloud, large concentration of dust that may exist at the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points of the Earth-Moon system
  • Molecular cloud, type of interstellar cloud whose density and size permits the formation of molecules
  • Oort cloud, postulated spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun im stup duh....Insert non-formatted text herej I love FF

[edit] Fiction

  • Cloud, Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan
  • Cloud City, fictional floating city on Bespin
  • Cloud Strife, game character from Final Fantasy VII

[edit] People named Cloud

  • Kevin Cloud, computer games graphic designer
  • Michael Cloud, motivational speaker who was the Massachusetts Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002
  • Mike Cloud, American football player who is currently a running back for the New England Patriots

[edit] Geography

  • Cloud County, Kansas, United States
  • Cloud forest, generally tropical or subtropical evergreen montane forest characterized by a high incidence of low-level cloud cover
  • Cloud Gardens, small park in downtown Toronto
  • Temple Cloud, village within the Chew Valley in Somerset in the Bath and North East Somerset Council area on the A37 road
  • Thorpe Cloud, isolated limestone hill lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam at the southern end of Dovedale

[edit] Film

  • Black Cloud, 2004 movie directed and written by Rick Schroder
  • Orion's Cloud, 2002 short film about two mentally ill men with rock star aspirations

[edit] Literature

[edit] Chemistry

  • Cloud chamber, sealed environment containing a supercooled, supersaturated water vapour
  • Cloud point, the temperature where a nonionic surfactant or glycol solution starts to phase separate and two phases appear

[edit] Comedy

[edit] Other

  • Cloud (computer game), third-person computer puzzle game
  • Cloud (music), sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds
  • Cloud Gate, public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago
  • Dark Cloud, series of console role-playing games by Level-5 with elements of action and simulation games
  • Mushroom cloud, distinctive mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke, flame, or debris resulting from a very large explosion
  • Tag cloud, visual depiction of content tags used on a website

[edit] See also

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