Introduction Clouds play a major role in our climate system since the beginning of time. Clouds are a vast network that can shape and powerfully influence the weather we experience. As big players in our atmosphere, it is vital that we understand two things. One is what causes the formation of the clouds and the second is how they conglomerate into complex systems that influence the climate. Even as scientists use microphysical processes to better understand large-scale cloud systems and clouds in general, there is still a large amount of uncertainty in predicting and understanding how they affect climate.
Clouds are an integral part of condensation and the water cycle.
Clouds are essentially the basis of speculation that meteorologists use to figure out the current or imminent conditions of the sky and atmosphere. Everyone notices that there are various types of clouds that cover our skies, however, the basic classification scheme makes it even easier for us to know the basic types. In the pre-19th century period, there were no names given to clouds until in 1803, an English naturalist, Luke Howard, published a cloud classification system. To this day, it still serves as the basis for our classification of clouds. Let's note the difference in these three basic families of clouds.