English
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪt�s|-eɪt�s
Noun
cirrostratus
- meteorology A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena, either partially or completely. Sometimes a banded aspect may appear, but the intervals between the bands are filled with thinner cloud veil. The edge of the veil of cirrostratus may be straight and clean-cut, but more often it is irregular and fringed with cirrus. Some of the ice crystals that comprise the cloud are large enough to fall and thereby produce a fibrous aspect. Cirrostratus occasionally may be so thin and transparent as to render it almost indiscernible, especially through haze or at night. At such times, the existence of a halo may be the only revealing feature, such as producing a halo around the moon. Abbreviated: Cs.
Translations
Russian: пеÑ�иÑ�Ñ�о-Ñ�лоиÑ�Ñ�аÑ� (peristo-sloÃstaja) f
References
Source: FM 3-6 Field Behavior of NBC Agents
Category:Weather
zh:cirrostratus
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