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Definition of Stratus cloud
1. Noun. A large dark low cloud.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stratus Cloud
Literary usage of Stratus cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"It generally occurs in an alto-stratus or cumulo-stratus cloud, and seldom except in
... If, now, this snow, say, is drifted out just above a stratus cloud, ..."
2. The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere by Georg Hartwig (1875)
"... stratus cloud—The Nimbus or Rain-cloud— Intermediate Forms—The Mackerel Sky—The
Formation of Clouds—Button's Theory—The Spreading of the Tablecloth on ..."
3. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"Rifts in nimbus clouds almost always reveal a stratus cloud of the alto or cirrus
... The true stratus cloud takes the form of mists, fogs or solid clouds. ..."
4. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"Rifts in nimbus clouds almost always reveal a stratus cloud of the alto or cirrus
... The true stratus cloud takes the form of mists, fogs or solid clouds. ..."
5. Handbook of Meteorology: A Manual for Cooperative Observers and Students by Jacques Wardlaw Redway (1921)
"When a fog lifts, it forms a stratus cloud; and if it floats away toward ...
The components of a stratus cloud may be fog, smoke or dust—or even all three. ..."
6. The sailor's horn-book for the law of storms: Being a Practical Exposition by Henry Piddington (1851)
"This stratus cloud is often concealed from view by the nimbus and scud clouds,
in the rainy portion of the storm, but by careful observations, ..."
7. Weather Science: An Elementary Introduction to Meteorology by F. W. Henkel (1911)
"The pure stratus cloud is an accompaniment of fine weather, ... The cumulo-stratus
cloud is a compound of cirro-stratus resting either on the top of a ..."
8. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"*ney have cooled below the dew point, and a thin overcasting in the form of an
alto-stratus cloud, is the result. It is visible in the early morning, ..."
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