I swear i have seen this word for a type of cloud in the stratosphere. But when i googled it i couldn’t find and help. Maybe it is the spelling? So here is the quest. Most clouds are formed in the troposphere, but these types of clouds are found in the statosphere. How did they get there? Can anyone give me a link for a picture of such cloud? thanks in advance.
cumulus, nimbus, cumulonimbus, and cirrus, those are the ones I know
The Backus-Gilbert method appears to be a technique employed in studying stratospheric clouds. search results
Opacus? But that’s really a description of a cloud’s appearance rather than a broad type in itself. The color plates in my National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather contain a number of photos with opacus in the description, though these are all associated with stratus clouds, which are low-level formations, not going anywhere near the stratosphere.
Dont know of anything resembling “bauchus” in cloud types. High-level clouds are generally cirriform (cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus).
There’s also a term called mammatus. That refers to formations that resemble mammary glands. They are found on the bases of cumulonimbus clouds, and generally indicate extreme instability of the atmosphere, and possibly an oncoming tornado.
This link might help you out, but I doubt you will find your word in there.
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html
Nacreous clouds:
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/nacr1.htm
I only saw them once, and damn me, if I wasn’t too busy to look at them carefully; they were in all the newspapers the next day.
They are twenty, thirty miles up, most often shining in the light of the sun long after sunset.
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