{"id":1272,"date":"2014-11-11T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:18:35","slug":"nasa-quiz-tests-your-knowledge-of-how-clouds-affect-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/11\/nasa-quiz-tests-your-knowledge-of-how-clouds-affect-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA quiz tests your knowledge of how clouds affect climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds are one of the main unknowns in understanding how climate might change in the future.\u00a0 Low clouds reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the planet, while high clouds trap heat near the surface, warming things up.\u00a0 Because of their temporary nature, they are hard to model adequately in global climate models, leading to uncertainty in future climate projections.\u00a0 NASA&#8217;s Climate division has a great quiz which tests your knowledge of how clouds affect climate.\u00a0 You can find it at <a title=\"NASA cloud quiz\" href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/quizzes\/CloudsAerosols-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/quizzes\/CloudsAerosols-quiz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1273\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-stratocu-clouds-over-ocean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1273\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-stratocu-clouds-over-ocean-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NASA\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-stratocu-clouds-over-ocean-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-stratocu-clouds-over-ocean-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/11\/nasa-stratocu-clouds-over-ocean.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds are one of the main unknowns in understanding how climate might change in the future.\u00a0 Low clouds reflect sunlight back to space, cooling the planet, while high clouds trap heat near the surface, warming things up.\u00a0 Because of their temporary nature, they are hard to model adequately in global climate models, leading to uncertainty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22923,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/22923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}