Various types of tornadoes include the landspout, multiple vortex tornado, and waterspout. Waterspouts are characterized by a spiraling funnel-shaped wind current, connecting to a large cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud.
Creatas/Creatas/Getty Images. Matter can exist in a solid, liquid or gaseous state, and the state a substance is in can be largely determined by its temperature. When a certain temperature threshold unique to each substance in the universe is crossed, a phase change will result, changing the state of the matter.he point at which matter subjected to a particular temperature under conditions of constant pressure begins to change its phase is called the phase change threshold. At this temperature, every bit of the substance exposed to the heat will change its state.
Clouds affect the climate but changes in the climate, in turn, affect the clouds. This relationship creates a complicated system of climate feedbacks, in which clouds modulate Earth's radiation and water balances.1  Clouds cool Earth's surface by reflecting incoming sunlight.louds occur in the lower two atmospheric layers that comprise the troposphere extending from the surface to about 12 km altitude. The uppermost atmospheric layer extends from about 12-100 km and is comprised, going upward, of the stratosphere (containing the ozone layer), the mesosphere and the thermosphere.