Cirrostratus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cirrostratus clouds are thin, generally uniform clouds, composed of ice-crystals, capable of forming halos. They are usually located above 5.5 km . When thick enough to be seen, they are whitish, usu...
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Cumulonimbus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cumulonimbus ( Cb ) is a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather. It is a result of atmospheric instability. These clouds can form alone, in clust...
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; This is a photograph of cirrostratus clouds near Moab, Utah. Click on image for full size version (66K JPG); Courtesy of Anne Pharamond ... Cirrostratus clouds belong to the High Cloud (5000-13000m) group. They are sheetlike thin clouds that usually cover the entire sky.
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Cirrostratus may cover the sky as a continuous sheet with no features, but it often has a fibrous look. The cloud is so thin it is almost transparent. You can see the sun or moon through it much more clearly than you can through altostratus, and this is the simplest way to tell one cloud from the other.
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Cirrostratus are sheet-like, high-level clouds composed of ice crystals. Though cirrostratus can cover the entire sky and be up to several thousand feet thick, they are relatively transparent, as the sun or the moon can easily be seen through them.
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Cirrostratus clouds are very thin. The name cirrostratus means "curl" and "spread out" in Latin. Cirrostratus clouds are high altitude clouds. Cirrostratus clouds from when cool, dry air meets warm, moist air. These clouds are often indicators of rain.
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Cloud Atlas -> Cirrostratus ... Cirrostratus (Cs) ... Cirrostratus: The Cirrostratus consists, like the Cirrus und Cirrocumulus, of very small ice crystals and does not lead to precipitation. It indicates with falling air pressure dirty weather.
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Pages in category "Cirrostratus clouds" ... Cirrostratus undulatus with other waves.JPG ... Close Cirrostratus stratiformis.JPG...
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cirrostratus cloud ( ¦sirō′stradəs ¦klau̇d ) ( meteorology ) A principal cloud type, appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but ... Sci-Tech Dictionary: cirrostratus cloud...
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[sîŕō-strā́təs, -străt́əs]
