Satellite view of cloud thickness

How does the thickness of a cloud change the way it looks from the satellite?

This is the same image as the last example, but the adjustments are now different:

Dragging on the cloud changes its thickness and its effective brightness.

You can modify the surface temperature with the horizontal sliding scale.

Questions:

• What happens to the image when you make the cloud thinner?
• What happens to the image when you make the cloud thicker?
• What happens to the image when you decrease the ground temperature?
• What happens to the brightness of the cloud when you change the ground temperature? Why?