cirrocumulus refers to each cloud, but is typically also used to refer to an entire patch of cirrocumulus. When used in this way, each cirrocumulus element...

Cirrocumulus stratiformis is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name cirrocumulus stratiformis is derived from Latin, meaning "stretched out". Cirrocumulus...

Cirrocumulus lenticularis is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name cirrocumulus lenticularis is derived from Latin, meaning "like a lentil". Cirrocumulus...

types. Mutatus mother clouds Cirrocumulus cirromutatus Cirrocumulus cirrostratomutatus Cirrocumulus altocumulomutatus Cirrocumulus homomutatus Results from...

sheet of cloud, whereas cirrocumulus looks like a pattern of small cloud tufts. Unlike cirrus and cirrostratus, cirrocumulus clouds contain droplets of supercooled...

are also cumuliform clouds of limited convection that comprise stratocumulus (low-étage), altocumulus (middle-étage) and cirrocumulus (high-étage). These...

Cirrocumulus castellanus or Cirrocumulus castellatus is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. Castellanus is from the Latin meaning "of a castle". These clouds...

Cirrocumulus lacunosus, also known as Cirrocumulus lacunar or Cirrocumulus lacunaris, is a variety of cirrocumulus cloud. The term lacunosus is from Latin...

may merge into cirrostratus. This high-level cloud genus does not produce precipitation. Genus cirrocumulus (Cc) – this is a pure white high stratocumuliform...

Cirrocumulus floccus is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name cirrocumulus floccus is derived from Latin, meaning "a lock of wool". Cirrocumulus floccus...

Cirrocumulus undulatus is a variety of cirrocumulus cloud. The name cirrocumulus undulatus is derived from Latin, meaning "diversified as with waves"....

usually more widely spaced than the bands or elements seen with cirrocumulus clouds. Type III billows are arrangements of closely spaced, roughly parallel...

A mackerel sky is a term for clouds made up of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying an undulating, rippling pattern similar in appearance...

altocumulus, and cirrocumulus) clouds have the least in common with nimbostratus. Nimbostratus virga Cumulonimbus List of cloud types "cloud". Columbia Electronic...

punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal or cloud hole) is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus...

standing lenticular (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL), varying in altitude above the ground. As...

observed in altocumulus, cirrocumulus, lenticular, and cirrus clouds. They sometimes appear as bands parallel to the edge of the clouds. Iridescence is also...

water droplets. Above the mid-level clouds are three different genera of high-level clouds, cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus, all of which are given...

patches – the individual elements being larger and darker than those of cirrocumulus and smaller than those of stratocumulus. However, if the layers become...

and low levels. Despite the fact that the three genera of high clouds, Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus, form at the top of the troposphere, far from...

stratocumuliform clouds in the high level of the troposphere have the prefix cirro- added to their names yielding the genera cirrostratus and cirrocumulus. Similar...

Distant clouds or snowy mountaintops will seem yellow for that reason; that effect is not obvious on clear days, but very pronounced when clouds are covering...

cirrocumulomutatus are the result of a complete transformation from cirrus and cirrocumulus genus types. Cirrostratus nebulosis altostratomutatus results when a...

the cloud (such as the edges of the undulations) are generally darker than those in cirrocumulus and smaller than those in stratocumulus. These clouds may...

forms are formally described as homomutatus, and may resemble cirrus, cirrocumulus, or cirrostratus, and are sometimes called cirrus aviaticus. Some persistent...

: 350  Other approaches include marine cloud brightening (MCB), which would increase the reflectivity of clouds over the oceans. Climate models have consistently...

from the original on 2021-11-13. Retrieved 13 November 2021. "Cirrocumulus Lacunosus Cloud - EPOD - a service of USRA". 18 September 2020. Archived from...

larger and more distinct than in cirrocumulus but smaller than in stratocumulus. Like other stratocumuliform clouds, altocumulus usually signifies convection...

Cirrus cloud thinning (CCT) is a proposed method of climate engineering. Cirrus clouds are high cold ice that, like other clouds, both reflect sunlight...

appearance of precipitation which doesn't reach the ground Fallstreak hole, a large circular gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds...