Month: September 2022

PATTERNS. “The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood. This picture of living creatures, as patterns of organization rather than collections of molecules, applies also to sand dunes and snowflakes, thunderstorms and hurricanes.” https://lnkd.in/dts5S86 View in LinkedIn

ON CHAOS AND ORDER. On the crystal formation theme and order emerging from chaos in phase changes of inert molecules, we see the same phenomena in clouds, and of course, in the inanimate planetary universe, such as the concentric rings of Saturn. Immutable physical laws acting on macroscopic matter. Ilya Prigogine, the Nobel winning chemist, made a brilliant career on the topsy-turvey thought that chaos is critical for the development of order, or oder through fluctuation. https://lnkd.in/dDHtwje View in LinkedIn

CLOUD TYPES. "Ten cloud genera are subdivided into 14 species (secondary classifications), which describe shape and internal structure, and 9 varieties (tertiary classifications), which describe the transparency and arrangement of clouds." https://lnkd.in/duyznjv View in LinkedIn

100 CLOUDS. "Not all genera have all species, and not all species have all varieties, but in all there are about 100 combinations. In additional to the first three levels of classification, certain supplementary features and accessory clouds are also defined." https://lnkd.in/duyznjv View in LinkedIn

In the season of the recycling of biological matter, there is something lovely about fungus on fungus, ecosystem successions in a natural order. View in LinkedIn

ASPERITAS, NEW CLOUD SYSTEM ADDED. "Since 2008, we have argued that this dramatic and distinctive cloud formation deserves a classification of its own. Now The World Meteorological Organisation have announced that they’re going to be making it the first new cloud classification since 1951." https://lnkd.in/dHirZbh View in LinkedIn

WILD CLOUD FORMATIONS. Sixty remarkable cloud formations caught on camera. https://lnkd.in/dSJ8Ke3 View in LinkedIn

VIDEOS OF WILD CLOUDS. https://lnkd.in/du2sKP9 View in LinkedIn

CLOUD SHORTHAND CODES, the arcane history of cloud coding shorthand. https://lnkd.in/d8Fiz_x View in LinkedIn