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" The Rain Cloud. A Cloud, or system of Clouds, from which rain is falling. It is a horizontal sheet, above which the Cirrus spreads, while the Cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. "
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 148
by Encyclopaedia - 1845
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Weather Science: An Elementary Introduction to Meteorology

F. W. Henkel - 1911 - 370 pages
...superadding a widespread structure to its base. The seventh form, nimbus or cumulo-cirro-stratus, ' the rain cloud.' A cloud, or system of clouds, from...horizontal sheet above which the cirrus spreads, while the cumujus enters it laterally and from beneath." In addition to the above seven well-marked forms some...
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Weather Science: An Elementary Introduction to Meteorology

F. W. Henkel - 1911 - 360 pages
...superadding a widespread structure to its base. The seventh form, nimbus or cumulo - cirro - stratus, ' the rain cloud.' A cloud, or system of clouds, from which rain is falling." "It is a horizontal CUMULUS AND HIUH STRATUS. CIKIU'S. (Photos by Opt. Wilson Barker, KRSE, FKMet.Suc., &c.) To face p....
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volumes 42-43

Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1916 - 996 pages
...stratus. Howard's cumulo-stratus is the cloud now known as cumulo-nimbus. Howard describes nimbus as " the rain cloud. A cloud or system of clouds from which...the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath." 2 Thomas Forster 3 gives Howard's classification, and in addition English names for the various classes...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the ..., Volume 21; Volume 25

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 526 pages
...nuperadding a wide-spread structure to its base ; the cumulo-cirro-straiitx •vel nimbus: "Tho rain-cloud, a cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling....the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath." 1 «,V*aJs.\. 28s out below tbe faulty interpretation which has beeu given by all writers to the description...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 524 pages
...superadding a wide-spread structure to its base ; the cumulo-cirro-stratus rcl nimbus : " The rain-cloud, a cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling....the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath." I shall 28S 434 METEOROLOGY. out below the faulty interpretation which has been given by all the writers...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 522 pages
...superadding a icide-sprcad structure to its base ; the cumulo-cirro-stratus vel nimbus: "The rain-cloud, a cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling....spreads, while the cumulu-s enters it laterally and from beneatti." 28s out below the faulty interpretation which has been given by all the writers to the description...
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1858 - 1142 pages
...cumulo-cirrostratus is an organized combination of the simple forms, and is described by Howard as "a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads,...the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath." The more distinct forms of thunder-cloud to which I now alone refer, more resemble a cumulostratus...
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Philosophical Magazine

1858 - 1152 pages
...cumulo-cirrostratus is an organized combination of the simple forms, and is described by Howard as “ a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads,...the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath.” The more distinct forms of thunder-cloud to which I now alone refer, more resemble a cumulostratus...
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of ...

Richard Hamblyn - 2002 - 306 pages
...CuMULO'CiRRO'STRATUS vtl NIMBUS. Def. Nubes vel nubium congeries /superne cirrata/ pluviam ejfundens. The rain cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds from...the Cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. 11 These collective opening definitions, soon to be widely circulated and reprinted, served to introduce...
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A Diurnal Register for the Barometer, Sympiesometer, and Thermometer

J. C. Dennis - 1850 - 126 pages
...occasional deviations from the North and South. 7th, NIMBUS, or CUMULO-CIRRO-STRATUS,—the rain cloud; a horizontal sheet, above which the Cirrus spreads,...the Cumulus enters it laterally, and from beneath. A Nimbus is frequently accompanied by Cirostrati lying near it, (particularly the Nimbus of thunder...
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