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IN NATURE of November 17, p. 725, Dr. Lockyer puts forward a suggestion as to the physics of the formation of “mammato-cumulus” cloud, namely, that it is formed by descent of moist air into colder air below, when there is a reversed vertical temperature gradient, in the same way that “cumulus” clouds are formed by an ascent of warm air (when there is a normal temperature gradient) into colder air above.
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DOBSON, G. An Uncommon Type of Cloud. Nature 112, 793 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112793b0
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