cirrostratus

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a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude

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Cirrocumulus in its pure form is actually a high cumuliform genus, and cirrostratus is stratiform, like altostratus and lower based sheet clouds. Source: Internet

Stratocumuliform and stratiform clouds in the high étage carry the prefix cirro-, yielding the respective genus names cirrocumulus (Cc) and cirrostratus (Cs). Source: Internet

Summary of high cloud genera A solar halo There are three main genera in the family of high clouds: cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus. Source: Internet

The other two genera, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus, are also high clouds. Source: Internet

These were respectively stratocumuliform and stratiform cloud genera of a newly defined middle étage above stratocumulus and stratus but below cirrocumulus and cirrostratus. Source: Internet

The stratiform group is cross-classified into the genera cirrostratus (high-étage), altostratus (middle-étage), stratus (low-étage), and nimbostratus (multi-étage). Source: Internet

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