Nephology

The cloud formation and climate change (from the Greek. Νεφέλη Nephele = fog, cloud) or cloud customer is part of the Meteorology and has the study of clouds and their manifestations to content. Clouds are classified according to the cloud atlas of the World Meteorological Organization . Modern cloud science was founded in the early 19th century by Luke Howard . Brontology or thunderstorm theory subdivides thunderstorms based on visual properties.

literature

• Praise from the brontologist from Welt Online
• Richard Hamblyn: The Invention of Clouds. How an unknown meteorologist researched the language of the sky, 2001