Ql570 Mit Standard Thermo Papier

TYPES OF CLOUDS

The official names of the different types of clouds are given in Latin . There are four genera ( generates ) fundamental

• Clusters ( cumulus) clouds of vertical development
• Strata ( Stratus ) stratified clouds
• Nimbos (Nimbus ) capable of forming rain clouds
• Cirrus (Cirrus ) ice crystal clouds

previous groups are in type clouds low, medium or high, and vertical development, leading to a classification of 16 types.

Family C Low clouds [edit ]

Less than 2 km

• Stratus (St)
• Stratocumulus (Sc)
• Cumulus (Cu)
• Cumulonimbus (Cb)
• fractus Cumulus (Cu fr)

Clouds medium B Family [edit ]

2 to 5 km.

• Nimbostratus
• Altostratus (O)
• Altostratus undulatus
• Altocumulus (Ac)
• Altocumulus undulatus
• Altocumulus mackerel
• Altocumulus Castellanus
• Altocumulus lenticularis

Partly cloudy Family A [edit ]

of 5 km below

• Cirrus (Ci)
• Cirrus uncinus
• Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz
• Cirrostratus (Cs)
• Cirrocumulus (Cc)
• Pileus
• Stroke plane, a thin cloud, developed by the passage of an aircraft at high altitudes.
• polar mesospheric cloud

orographic clouds [edit ]

addition to these there are different types of fog and a separate group of clouds called orographic tag, found:

- lenticular clouds

- Banner Clouds