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ALTOSTRATUS PRAECIPITATIO [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
OBS

praecipitatio (pra): Precipitation (rain, drizzle, snow, ice pellets, hail, etc.) falling from a cloud and reaching the Earth's surface. This supplementary feature (thus named because precipitation appears as an extension of the cloud) is mostly encountered with altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus and cumulonimbus.

Key term(s)
  • alto-stratus praecipitatio
  • alto stratus praecipitatio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Couche d'altostratus opaque n'ayant pas encore perdu le caractère fibreux et donnant de faibles précipitations (pluie ou neige) continues ou intermittentes.

OBS

praecipitatio (pra) : Précipitations (pluie, bruine, neige, granules de glace, grésil, grêle, etc.) tombant d'un nuage et atteignant la surface du globe. Cette particularité supplémentaire (ainsi nommée parce que la précipitation apparaît comme un prolongement des nuages) se présente, le plus souvent, avec les altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus et cumulonimbus.

OBS

Description des nuages. [...] Genre : altostratus. Espèces : -. Variétés : translucidus, opacus, undulatus, duplicatus, radiatus. Formes : virga, mamma, praecipitatio, pannus. Générateurs : cumulonimbogenitus, altocumulogenitus.

OBS

altostratus praecipitans. [...] Ces précipitations peuvent ne pas arriver jusqu'au sol et constituent alors des virgas.

Spanish

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