A report on Stratus cloud
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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Cloud
3 linksAerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
Aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
The main representative cloud types for each of these forms are stratiform, cumuliform, stratocumuliform, cumulonimbiform, and cirriform.
Fog
2 linksVisible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
Visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
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.
Precipitation
2 linksAny product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds.
Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds.
Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall.
Drizzle
1 linksLight liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than 0.5 mm in diameter.
Light liquid precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than 0.5 mm in diameter.
Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds.
Stratocumulus cloud
2 linksA 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.
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.
Nimbostratus cloud
1 linksMulti-level, amorphous, nearly uniform and often dark grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow or sleet but no lightning or thunder.
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.
Anticyclone
1 linksWeather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above .
Weather phenomenon defined as a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above .
The surface level, sharp temperature inversion can lead to areas of persistent stratocumulus or stratus cloud, colloquially known as anticyclonic gloom.