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radiation. Cumulus clouds are part of the larger category of free-convective cumuliform clouds, which include cumulonimbus clouds. The latter genus-type is sometimes...

cirriform wisps and patches; stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples; cumuliform heaps, and cumulonimbiform towers that often have complex structures....

ten basic genera. The five main forms are stratiform sheets or veils, cumuliform heaps, stratocumuliform bands, rolls, or ripples, cumulonimbiform towers...

8 km) in summer and 26,000 ft (7.9 km) in winter. Like lower-altitude cumuliform and stratocumuliform clouds, cirrocumulus signifies convection. Unlike...

Cumulus humilis are cumuliform clouds with little vertical extent, common in the summer, that are often referred to as "fair weather cumulus". If they...

known as a flammagenitus, pyrocumulus cloud, or fire cloud, is a dense cumuliform cloud associated with fire or volcanic eruptions. A flammagenitus is similar...

instability, then the altocumulus clouds become more purely cumuliform in structure. Like other cumuliform and stratocumuliform clouds, altocumulus signifies convection...

usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud in contact with the water and a cumuliform cloud. There are two types of waterspout, each formed by distinct mechanisms...

established based on appearance and characteristics of formation: cirriform, cumuliform and stratiform. These were further divided into upper and lower types...

air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel...

or Stratocumulus depending on height, as Asperitas is thought to be a cumuliform structure Species Stratiformis Variety Opacus Altitude Below 2,000 (or...

a violently rotating column of air in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud base. Tornado formation is caused by the stretching and aggregating/merging...

appearance and process of formation: cirriform (mainly detached and wispy), cumuliform or convective (mostly detached and heaped, rolled, or rippled), and non-convective...

generate a narrower line of clouds which are mostly stratocumuliform, cumuliform, or cumulonimbiform depending on the stability of the warm air mass just...

intensely rotating vortex (column of air) in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud above. Fire whirls are not usually classifiable as tornadoes as...

horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds formed by rising thermals. The term stratus describes flat, hazy...

likelihood of carburetor icing and fog, and to estimate the height of a cumuliform cloud base. Increasing the barometric pressure raises the dew point. This...

and firestorm, causing it to spread more quickly. Pyrocumulonimbus are cumuliform clouds that can form over a large fire and that are particularly dry....

due to convective activity, which is associated with the formation of cumuliform clouds during the afternoon, when ground heating promotes upward movements...

rapidly rotating column of air is in contact with both the surface and a cumuliform cloud. Not all landspouts are visible, and many are first sighted as debris...

cirrostratus creating an inversion and restricting convection, causing cumuliform clouds to become flattened. Contrails also tend to spread out and can...

common form, a non-supercell tornado over water that is connected to a cumuliform cloud. While it is often weaker than most of its land counterparts, stronger...

000 ft (910–1,200 m) thick layer. In contrast, icing intensity level in cumuliform clouds may range from trace for small cumulus to severe for large ones...

castellanus, fibratus, floccus, spissatus, and uncinus: Cirrus castellanus has cumuliform tops caused by high-altitude convection rising up from the main cloud...

any precipitation falls in the form of showers or thunderstorms from cumuliform clouds. The air is usually hot during the day and pleasantly warm at night...

accumulate, accumulation, accumulator, cumulate, cumulative, cumulativity, cumuliform, cumulose, cumulous, cumulus cūnae cūn- cradle cunabula, incunable, incunabula...

any precipitation falls in the form of showers or thunderstorms from cumuliform clouds. The air is usually hot during the day and pleasantly warm at night...

or castellatus, is a cloud that displays at least in its upper part cumuliform protuberances having the shape of turrets that give a crenellated aspect...

boundaries findable within visible satellite imagery as a thin line of cumuliform clouds which is known as an arcus, or arc, cloud. The image to the right...

castellanus A cloud species that displays at least in its upper part cumuliform protuberances resembling the turrets of a castle, giving a crenellated...

Description Image Caption Notable Occasions Flammagenitus cloud A dense cumuliform cloud associated with fire or a volcanic eruption. Includes the pyrocumulus...

000 ft (910–1,200 m) thick layer. In contrast, icing intensity level in cumuliform clouds may range from trace for small cumulus to severe for large ones...

derived from Latin, meaning 'of a castle.' Clouds of this type appear as cumuliform turrets vertically rising from a common horizontal cloud base. These turrets...

front of the thunderstorm. This warm air is forced upward and generates cumuliform clouds when the air column becomes saturated. These feeder clouds will...

relative humidity of 70% for stratus-type clouds, and at or above 80% for cumuliform clouds, reflecting the sub grid scale variation that would occur in the...

the air temperature, a formula can be used to estimate the height of cumuliform, or convective, clouds. Wind is determined using anemometers and wind...

relative humidity of 70% for stratus-type clouds, and at or above 80% for cumuliform clouds, reflecting the sub grid scale variation that would occur in the...