natural clouds

How Clouds Form

text and photography by Bernhard Mühr
The "Karlsruher Wolkenatlas", www.wolkenatlas.de

What are clouds?

Clouds consist of small water droplets and/or small ice particles. The diameter of cloud water droplets is in the order of 0.01-0.02 mm. Clouds usually consist of a spectrum of different droplet sizes, the radii may range up to 0.1 mm.