2nd Workshop on Cloud Organization (WCO2)

Session

Evening Session

17 May 2022, 19:30

Public Library (Utrecht)

Conveners

Evening Session: Public talk

• Bjorn Stevens
• Anna Lea Albright

83. A short History of Cloud Observations in Art and Science

Bjorn Stevens, Anna Lea Albright

17/05/2022, 19:30

Talk

Looking up. Our eyes are drawn to the sky. The sky can promise rain, sunshine, storms, clouds in a variety of forms ... in this talk, we trace a history of observing the sky, particularly the history of observing clouds and observing air pollution. In the 19th century, an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave clouds their names (cumulus, stratus, etc), which grew into the first...