0 a type of cumulus (= a tall, rounded, white cloud with a flat base) formed in a very thin layer and often in a regular pattern --
The high-tage clouds are all cirriform, one of which, cirrocumulus, is also cumuliform of limited convection or stratocumuliform.
Cirrocumulus stratiformis occurs as very small cirrocumulus clouds that cover a large part of the sky.
Cirrocumulus clouds come in four species: "stratiformis", "lenticularis", "castellanus", and "floccus".
Unlike other high cirrus and cirrostratus, cirrocumulus includes a small amount of liquid water droplets, although these are in a supercooled state.
High-tage tropospheric genus-types, "cirrus", "cirrocumulus", and "cirrostratus", particularly show this duality with both short-wave albedo cooling and long-wave greenhouse warming effects.
The other two genera, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus, are also high clouds.
The resulting cloud forms may resemble cirrus, cirrocumulus, or cirrostratus, and are sometimes called cirrus aviaticus.
Cirrocumulus are, like other members of the cumuliform and stratocumuliform categories, formed via convective processes.
