EA: CLOUD_SKY_COVER_LAYER_TYPE
EE: STRATOCUMULUS
Status:
STD 2005/06/07
Code:
7
EA label:
CLOUD_SKY_COVER_LAYER_TYPE
Concept definition:
A grey or whitish or both grey and whitish patch, sheet, and/or <
CLOUD_LAYER
> that almost always has dark parts composed of tessellations, rounded masses, or rolls, that are non-fibrous (except for virga) and which may or may not be merged; stratocumulus [
WMO407
, Section II.2.3.1, "stratocumulus"]. Most of the regularly arranged, small elements have an apparent width of more than 5 arc degrees as observed from the <
PLANETARY_SURFACE
>.
Reference type:
PR
Reference:
[
WMO306
, Volume I.1, Part A, Code table 0500:6]
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