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EA: LOW_CLOUD_GENUS
EE: STRATOCUMULUS

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 4
EA label: LOW_CLOUD_GENUS

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. 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: [WMO407, Section II.2.3.1, "stratocumulus"]
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