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The Cloud Appreciation Society, founded in 2005 to defend 'unfairly maligned' clouds, collected members' photographs of a strange, turbulent formation. In 2017 the World Meteorological Organization added it to the International Cloud Atlas as 'asperitas'.

Asperitas, 2017

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The trail began with a 2006 photograph from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of a sky like a rough sea viewed from below. Founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney — whose society's manifesto pledges to 'fight blue-sky thinking' — spent years proposing the classification, and 'asperitas', from the Latin for roughness, became the first new name added to the atlas since 1951. Amateurs with cameras and patience still get to write in science's reference books.

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'Haksızca karalanan' bulutları savunmak için 2005'te kurulan Bulut Takdir Derneği, üyelerinin tuhaf ve çalkantılı bir oluşumu gösteren fotoğraflarını topladı. 2017'de Dünya Meteoroloji Örgütü bu oluşumu 'asperitas' adıyla Uluslararası Bulut Atlası'na ekledi.
Asperitas, 2017

İz, 2006'da Iowa'nın Cedar Rapids kentinden gelen bir fotoğrafla başladı: Alttan bakılan azgın bir denizi andıran bir gökyüzü. Manifestosu 'masmavi gök düşüncesiyle savaşmaya' ant içen derneğin kurucusu Gavin Pretor-Pinney, sınıflandırmayı yıllarca savundu ve Latince 'pürüzlülük' anlamındaki 'asperitas', atlasa 1951'den beri eklenen ilk yeni ad oldu. Fotoğraf makinesi ve sabrı olan amatörler, bilimin başvuru kitaplarına hâlâ satır yazdırabiliyor.

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