0 a type of cumulus (= tall, rounded, white cloud with a flat base) formed in a thick layer and found at low height
The laboratory results may be related to the behaviour of marine stratocumulus clouds.
The stability of stratocumulus clouds with strong evaporative cooling effects is explored in laboratory simulations.
Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds.
Like all other forms of stratocumulus apart from castellanus, they are also often found in anticyclones.
This often does not apply when stratocumulus is of a broken, fractus form, when it may appear as small as altocumulus.
Stratocumulus castellanus may develop into cumulus congestus (and even further into cumulonimbus) under auspicious conditions.
They are distinct from other stratocumulus by puffy tower-like formations atop the cloud layer.
The low, sharp temperature inversion can lead to areas of persistent stratocumulus or stratus cloud, known in colloquial terms as anticyclonic gloom.
