{"id":3407,"date":"2016-05-04T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/these-cloud-maps-track-life-on-earth-in-beautiful-detail\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:19:40","slug":"these-cloud-maps-track-life-on-earth-in-beautiful-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/these-cloud-maps-track-life-on-earth-in-beautiful-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"These cloud maps track life on Earth in beautiful detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5_2_16_brian_cloudatlas_720_364_s_c1_c_c\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzAzLzg3LzVfMl8xNl9CcmlhLmQ2MTg1LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/b7a207d6\/258\/5_2_16_Brian_CloudAtlas_720_364_s_c1_c_c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=These+cloud+maps+track+life+on+Earth+in+beautiful+detail&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F03%2Fcloud-maps-life-on-earth%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F03%2Fcloud-maps-life-on-earth%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Clouds might seem like a nuisance if you\u2019re headed on a Sunday afternoon picnic. But put aside your personal biases for a second and consider this: clouds can also tell the story of life on earth.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/cloudy-places-could-be-solar-gold-mines-20253\">Rooftops in cloudy places could be solar gold mines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That story has become a lot clearer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthenv.org\/cloud\">thanks to new maps<\/a> created by scientists that document a global <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/13-years-clouds-nasa-map-18985\">year in the clouds<\/a>\u00a0in more intimate detail than ever before. The maps \u2014 a cloud atlas if you will \u2014 provide a fine-grained view of how clouds move around in our atmosphere and represent an important link between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/ecosystems-face-unprecedented-changes-in-the-next-century-16301\">climate and ecological research<\/a>. They\u2019re also pretty easy on the eyes. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/03\/cloud-maps-life-on-earth\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/photos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/earth\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Earth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/clouds\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Clouds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cloud\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cloud<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/climate\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Climate<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462320559' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462320559'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/OUTVQb9QOJ4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds might seem like a nuisance if you\u2019re headed on a Sunday afternoon picnic. But put aside your personal biases for a second and consider this: clouds can also tell the story of life on earth. SEE ALSO: Rooftops in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/04\/these-cloud-maps-track-life-on-earth-in-beautiful-detail\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[898,2658,2657,2273,1779],"class_list":["post-3407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-climate","tag-cloud","tag-clouds","tag-earth","tag-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}