Cirrocumulus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cirrocumulus clouds are high-altitude clouds that usually occur at an altitude of 5 km to 12 km. Like other cumulus clouds, cirrocumulus clouds signify convection. Unlike other cirrus clouds, cirrocu...
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; These are cirrocumulus clouds. When the clouds in the sky look like this picture, it is called a "mackerel sky" because the clouds look like the scales on a mackerel fish. Click on image for full size version (53K JPG);
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Cirrocumulus clouds are high-altitude clouds that usually occur at an altitude of 5 km to 12 km. Like other cumulus clouds, cirrocumulus clouds signify convection ... Thus cirrocumulus clouds are usually short-lived. Properly, the term cirrocumulus refers to each cloud, but is typically also used to refer to an entire patch...
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Like all high-level clouds, cirrocumulus is made of ice crystals. It forms when cirrus or cirrostratus is warmed gently from below. This causes air to rise and sink inside the cloud. Some of the ice crystals change into water vapor, and gaps appear.
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Cirrocumulus clouds are found worldwide at high altitudes, typically above 16,500 feet. Just like cirrostratus, these clouds occur when a large area of moist air at these high altitudes reaches saturation and freezes.
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Cirrocumulus - Photographs of cirrocumulus clouds picture image photo [cc] ... ; McLeans Ridges, NSW ... Cirrocumulus - Photographs of cirrocumulus clouds [cc]
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Cirrocumulus clouds are very common above Orange County. The National Weather Service says, "A cirriform cloud is characterized by thin, white patches, each of which is composed of very small granules or ripples.
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Cirrocumulus: These clouds form above 18000 feet/5,5 km above sealevel and appear as small, rounded white puffs that are isolated or in long rows. When the white puffs are in rows, they give the cloud a rippling appearance that ... Cirrocumulus clouds rarely cover the entire sky and are sometimes hard to detect.
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Cloud Atlas -> Cirrocumulus ... Cirrocumulus (Cc) ... By far compaction of thin Cirrus clouds.
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