Details Title: Clouds Description: Basic Cloud Types, Species, Varieties, Accesory Clouds, Supplentary Features, and Optical Effects Total Flash Cards: 10 Created: 08/08/2009 19:35:46		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Meteorology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term {image:100377|center} Definition Cumulus Detached clouds, generally dense and with sharp outline, developing vertically in the form of rising mounds, domes, or towers, of which the bulging upper part often resembles a cauliflower. The sunlit parts are mostly brilliant white; their base is relatively dark and nearly horizontal.   Species   Humilis:  Wider than it is tall. Mediocris:  As tall as it is wide. Congestus:  Taller than it is wide. Fractus:  Broken with ragged edges.   Varieties   Radiatus:  Lined up in 'cloud streets'.  Term {image:100374|center} Definition Stratocumulus Gray or whitish patch, sheet or layer of cloud which almost always has dark pats, composed of tessellations, rounded masses, rolls, etc., which are nonfibrous, and which may or may not be merged; most of the regularly arranges small elements have an apparent width of more than 5 degrees. Term {image:100375|center} Definition Stratus Generally gray cloud layer with a fairly uniform base, which may give drizzle, ice prisms, or snow grains. When the sun is visible through the cloud, its outline is clearly discernible. Stratus generally does not produce halo phenomena. Term {image:100372|center} Definition Cumulonimbus Heavy, dense cloud, with considerable vertical extent, in the form of a mountain or huge towers. At least part of its upper portion is usually smooth, fibrous, or striated, and nearly always flattened; this part often spreads out in the shape of an anvil or vast plume. Term {image:100367|center} Definition Altocumulus White or gray patch, sheet, or layer of cloud, generally with shading, composed of laminae, rounded masses, rolls, etc, which are sometimes partly fibrous or diffuse, and which may or may not be merged; most of the regularly arranged small elements usually have an apparent width between one and five degrees. Term {image:100368|center} Definition Altostratus Grayish or bluish sheet of layer of striated, fibrous, or uniform appearance, totally or partly covering the sky. And having parts thin enough to reveal the sun at least vaguely, as through ground glass. Does not show halo phenomena. Term {image:100373|center} Definition Nimbostratus Heavy cloud layer, often dark the appearance of which is rendered diffuse by falling rain or snow, which in most cases reached the ground. It is thick enough to blot out the sun or moon. Term {image:100371|center} Definition Cirrus Detached clouds in the form of delicate white filaments or white or mostly white patches of narrow bands. These clouds have a fibrous appearance (hairlike), or a silky sheen, or both. Term {image:100369|center} Definition Cirrocumulus Thin white patch, sheet , or layer of cloud without shading, composed of very small elements in the form of grains, ripples, etc., merged or separate, and more or less regularly arranged; most of the elements have an appearance width of less than one degree. Term {image:100370|center} Definition Cirrostratus Transparent, whitish cloud veil of fibrous (hairlike) or smooth appearance, totally or partially covering the sky, and generally producing halo phenomena.