stratocumuliform

Adjective

Meaning

stratocumuliform (not comparable)

(meteorology, of clouds) Resembling cumulus but with extensive horizontal development.

Examples

The high-étage clouds are all cirriform, one of which, cirrocumulus, is also cumuliform of limited convection or stratocumuliform. Source: Internet

These high clouds do not produce precipitation. citation *Genus cirrocumulus (Cc): A large field of cirrocumulus stratiformis :This is a pure white high-étage stratocumuliform layer of limited convection. 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 stratocumuliform group is cross-classified into the genera cirrocumulus (high-étage), altocumulus (middle-étage), and stratocumulus (low-étage). Source: Internet

Clouds of the more detached tufted floccus species are also subdivisions of genus-types which may be cirriform or stratocumuliform. Source: Internet

Low stratocumuliform, stratiform, and cumuliform genera Low-étage clouds are found from near surface up to convert. Source: Internet

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