A report on Cloud and Stratus cloud

Stratus undulatus clouds during a rainy day.

Tropospheric cloud classification by altitude of occurrence: Multi-level and vertical genus-types not limited to a single altitude level include nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, and some of the larger cumulus species.

Windy evening twilight enhanced by the Sun's angle, can visually mimic a tornado resulting from orographic lift

Nimbostratus cloud producing precipitation

Cumulonimbus cloud over the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Texas

High cirrus upper-left merging into cirrostratus and some cirrocumulus upper right

Sunrise scene giving a shine to an altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus cloud (see also 'species and varieties')

Altostratus translucidus near top of photo merging into altostratus opacus near bottom

Cumulus humilis clouds over Jakarta, Indonesia

Stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus over Galapagos, Tortuga Bay (see also 'species and varieties')

$Deep multi-level nimbostratus cloud covering the sky with a scattered layer of low stratus fractus pannus (see also 'species' and 'supplementary features' sections)$

Cumulus humilis and cumulus mediocris with stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus in the foreground (see also 'species and varieties')

Towering vertical cumulus congestus embedded within a layer of cumulus mediocris: Higher layer of stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus.

Progressive evolution of a single cell thunderstorm

Isolated cumulonimbus cloud over the Mojave Desert, releasing a heavy shower

Altocumulus lenticularis forming over mountains in Wyoming with lower layer of cumulus mediocris and higher layer of cirrus spissatus

Example of a castellanus cloud formation

Cumulus mediocris cloud, about to turn into a cumulus congestus

A layer of stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus hiding the setting sun with a background layer of stratocumulus cumulogenitus resembling distant mountains.

Cirrus fibratus radiatus over ESO's La Silla Observatory

Altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus at sunrise in the California Mojave Desert, USA (higher layer orange to white; lower layer grey)

Cumulus partly spreading into stratocumulus cumulogenitus over the port of Piraeus in Greece

Cumulonimbus mother cloud dissipating into stratocumulus cumulonimbogenitus at dusk

Cirrus fibratus intortus formed into a Kármán vortex street at evening twilight

Global cloud cover, averaged over the month of October 2009. NASA composite satellite image.

Lenticular nacreous clouds over Antarctica

Joshua Passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant (1800) by Benjamin West, showing Yahweh leading the Israelites through the desert in the form of a pillar of cloud, as described in

Stratocumulus stratiformis and small castellanus made orange by the sun rising

An occurrence of cloud iridescence with altocumulus volutus and cirrocumulus stratiformis

Sunset reflecting shades of pink onto grey stratocumulus stratiformis translucidus (becoming perlucidus in the background)

Stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus before sunset. Bangalore, India.

Late-summer rainstorm in Denmark. Nearly black color of base indicates main cloud in foreground probably cumulonimbus.

Particles in the atmosphere and the sun's angle enhance colors of stratocumulus cumulogenitus at evening twilight

$Total cloud cover fraction averaged over the years 1981-2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set$

Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds that are formed by rising thermals.

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The main representative cloud types for each of these forms are stratiform, cumuliform, stratocumuliform, cumulonimbiform, and cirriform.

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View from Blassenstein mountain near Scheibbs (Lower Austria) to the west, with fog over Erlauf valley and Danube

Fog

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Visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

A massive fog bank over Twentynine Palms, California, covers the entire city as it begins to rise and join the clouds above it.

Minute droplets of water constitute this after-dark radiation fog, with an ambient temperature of -2 C. Their motion trails are captured as streaks.

A close-up view of water droplets forming fog. Those outside the camera lens's depth of field appear as orbs.

Advection fog layer in San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge and skyline in the background

Light fog reduces visibility on a suburban street, rendering the cyclist very hazy at about 200 m. The limit of visibility is about 400 m, which is before the end of the street.

Sutro Tower casts a 3-dimensional fog shadow

Pogonip fog in Virginia City, Nevada, from an early 20th-century postcard

Tree in field during extreme cold with frozen fog

Ice fog on Pyhäjärvi, Tampere during sunset.

Sea fog or "fret" encroaching on Brighton Pier

Sea fog in the Arctic Ocean near the island of Jan Mayen

Maple tree with red leaves in the morning mist, in western Estonia

A fog on the field of the Leppälahti ja Kuivaniemi villages in Kuopio, Finland

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Fog surrounding skyscrapers in the Melbourne city centre

Light fog over Taipei, Taiwan with Taipei 101 in the background

Fog in London with the Palace of Westminster in the background

Dense fog over Indian subcontinent, captured by NASA's Aqua satellite in December 2012

Fog partially obscuring a mountain in Tirupati in the India summer.

Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions.

Nimbostrati often have very few visual features.

Nimbostratus cloud

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A nimbostratus cloud is a multi-level, amorphous, nearly uniform and often dark grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow or sleet but no lightning or thunder.

Stratus or stratocumulus usually replace the nimbostratus after the passage of the warm or occluded front.

A stratocumulus cloud, occasionally called a cumulostratus, belongs to a genus-type of clouds characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus, and the whole being at a lower height, usually below 2000 m. Weak convective currents create shallow cloud layers because of drier, stable air above preventing continued vertical development.

If the cloud layer becomes grayer to the point when individual clouds cannot be distinguished, stratocumulus turn into stratus clouds.

A report on Cloud and Stratus cloud

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Fog

Nimbostratus cloud

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