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International Cloud Atlas - Quiz
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  • 1. In what year was the first edition of the International Cloud Atlas published?
A) 1932
B) 1911
C) 1939
D) 1896
  • 2. What was the 1932 edition of the International Cloud Atlas titled?
A) International Cloud Atlas
B) International Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky
C) International Atlas of Clouds and Types of Skies
D) International Sky and Cloud Atlas
  • 3. Who sponsored the 1932 edition of the International Cloud Atlas?
A) The International Meteorological Organization
B) The Meteorological Service of Catalonia
C) The Dutch Meteorological Institute
D) Rafel Patxot
  • 4. Besides English, French, and German, in what language was the 1932 edition published?
A) Dutch
B) Polish
C) Catalan
D) Norwegian
  • 5. The title of the 1939 edition was changed to what?
A) International Meteorological Cloud Atlas
B) International Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky
C) International Cloud Atlas of Skies
D) International Atlas of Clouds and Types of Skies
  • 6. Which edition was the first to be published in two volumes?
A) 1956
B) 1987
C) 1975
D) 1939
  • 7. Why was the 1956 edition separated into two volumes?
A) To increase the number of plates included
B) To separate meteorological history from scientific data
C) To lower costs and facilitate translated editions
D) Because the publisher requested a hardcover set
  • 8. In what year was the Dutch translation of the atlas published?
A) 1959
B) 1967
C) 1975
D) 1958
  • 9. How many years apart were the two volumes of the 1975 edition published?
A) 10 years
B) 12 years
C) 5 years
D) 20 years
  • 10. What new chapter was introduced in the 1975 edition?
A) Satellite imagery analysis
B) Clouds viewed from above, as from aircraft
C) A history of meteorology
D) Weather forecasting methods
  • 11. Which type of meteor is defined as a luminous phenomenon produced by the interaction of light from the sun or moon?
A) Lithometeor
B) Electrometeor
C) Hydrometeor
D) Photometeor
  • 12. What are non-aqueous, solid particles suspended in the air called?
A) Electrometeor
B) Photometeor
C) Hydrometeor
D) Lithometeor
  • 13. An ensemble of liquid or solid water particles is classified as what?
A) Lithometeor
B) Photometeor
C) Electrometeor
D) Hydrometeor
  • 14. What type of meteor is described as a visible or audible manifestation of atmospheric electricity?
A) Hydrometeor
B) Lithometeor
C) Electrometeor
D) Photometeor
  • 15. In what year was the second volume of the 1975 edition published?
A) 1987
B) 1956
C) 2017
D) 1975
  • 16. What was one of the initial purposes of the International Cloud Atlas?
A) Teaching cloud photography
B) Selling art prints
C) Documenting climate change
D) Training meteorologists
  • 17. Which international organization is the successor to the International Meteorological Committee?
A) International Weather Bureau
B) Global Weather Commission
C) World Meteorological Organization
D) United Nations Meteorological Agency
  • 18. What type of images were primarily used in the first edition of the Atlas?
A) Hand-drawn sketches
B) Black and white lithographs
C) Digital renderings
D) Color plates
  • 19. Which specific cloud type was the first one illustrated in the Atlas?
A) Cirrus
B) Nimbus
C) Cumulus
D) Stratus
  • 20. Which meteorologist observed that clouds were of the same general kinds everywhere in the world?
A) Julius von Hann
B) Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson
C) Ralph Abercromby
D) Léon Teisserenc de Bort
  • 21. In what year was the Cloud Atlas by Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson, Wladimir Köppen, and Georg von Neumayer published?
A) 1890
B) 1893
C) 1881
D) 1896
  • 22. Which of these works was published in 1894?
A) Wolkentafeln
B) Cloudland
C) Classificazione delle nubi
D) Nordeuropas Sky-former
  • 23. What was a notable characteristic of the color plates in the first edition?
A) They were all hand-painted
B) They were printed rather than hand-colored
C) They were grayscale photographs
D) They were printed on silk
  • 24. Which member of the Clouds Commission was involved in the publication of the 1896 Atlas?
A) M. Weilbach
B) W. Clement Ley
C) M. Singer
D) Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson
  • 25. What is the German title of the International Cloud Atlas?
A) Wolkentafeln
B) Cloudland
C) Atlas international des nuages
D) Internationaler Wolkenatlas
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