EA: CLOUD_SKY_COVER_LAYER_TYPE
EE: NIMBOSTRATUS
Status:
STD 2005/06/07
Code:
6
EA label:
CLOUD_SKY_COVER_LAYER_TYPE
Concept definition:
A grey <
CLOUD_LAYER
> that is often dark with an appearance rendered diffuse by more or less continuously falling <
RAIN
> and/or <
SNOW_PRECIPITATION
>, which in most cases reaches the <
PLANETARY_SURFACE
>, and thick enough throughout to blot out the <
SUN
>; nimbostratus [
WMO407
, Section II.2.3.1, "nimbostratus"].
Reference type:
PR
Reference:
[
WMO306
, Volume I.1, Part A, Code table 0500:5]
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