Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - How far is the ordinary cloud from the ground?

How far is the ordinary cloud from the ground?

4-5 km, generally around 1 km.

Low clouds: Cumulonimbus, Cumulonimbus, Stratocumulus and nimbostratus belong to five genera. The cloud bottom of low clouds is relatively low from the ground, generally less than 2,500m, which varies with seasons, weather conditions and different latitudes and longitudes.

Mesocumulus: stratocumulus and cumulus. The cloud consists of tiny water droplets, supercooled water droplets or a mixture of ice crystals and snow crystals. The height of the cloud bottom in the middle cloud is generally between 2500 and 5000 meters.

High clouds: Cirrus clouds, cirrostratus and cirrocumulus, which are composed of tiny ice crystals. The height of cloud bottom is generally more than 5000 meters, and it is lower in plateau area.

Extended data:

Clouds absorb heat from the ground and reflect it back to the ground, which helps to keep the earth warm, but clouds also reflect sunlight directly back to space, which has a cooling effect. Which effect is dominant depends on the shape and location of the cloud.

In the atmosphere more than ten kilometers from the ground, the closer to the ground, the higher the temperature and the richer the air; The higher the altitude, the lower the temperature and the thinner the air.

On the other hand, the water surface of rivers, lakes and seas, as well as the moisture of soil, animals and plants, evaporates into the air and becomes water vapor. After water vapor enters the atmosphere, it turns into clouds to cause rainfall, or condenses into frost dew, and then returns to the ground, permeates the soil or flows into rivers, lakes and seas. Later it will evaporate (vaporize) and then condense (condense) and drop. It goes on and on.