| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain), William Marriott - 1911 - 86 pages
...Committee, and published in the International Cloud Atlas, which is as follows : — 1. CIRRUS (Ci.). Detached clouds of delicate and fibrous appearance,...a feather•like structure, generally of a whitish colour. Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as isolated tufts, thin filaments on a blue... | |
| Hollis Leroy Müller - 1917 - 318 pages
...alto-cumulus, the cumulus and the stratus. Cloud Chart (Weather Bureau Bulletin). ' '1. (a) Cirrus. Detached clouds of delicate and fibrous appearance,...feather-like structure, generally of a whitish color. (These are the highest clouds considered.) (b) Cirro-stratus. A thin, whitish sheet of cirrus clouds.... | |
| George Aubourne Clarke - 1920 - 248 pages
...and fibrous appearance, often showing a feather-like structttre, generally of a whitish colour. — Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as...thin filaments on a blue sky, threads spreading out into the form of feathers, curved filaments ending in tufts ; they are sometimes arranged in parallel... | |
| J. J. Johnson - 1923 - 108 pages
...delicate and fibrous appearance, often showing a fealherlike structure, generally of a whitish colour. Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as...on a blue sky threads spreading out in the form of frethers, curved filaments ending in tufts, Sometimes called Cirrus uncinus, etc; they are sometimes... | |
| William Jackson Humphreys - 1924 - 72 pages
...clouds of delicate appearance, fibrous (threadlike} structure* and featherlike form, generally white in color. Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as isolated tufts of hair, ie, thin filaments on a blue sky, branched filaments in feathery form, straight or curved... | |
| 1925 - 132 pages
...The following definitions are taken from the International Cloud Atlas, 2d edition : Cirrus (Ci.).— Detached clouds of delicate and fibrous appearance,...shapes, such as isolated tufts, thin filaments on a blue * Clayton, H. Helm : Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory : Annals of the... | |
| United States. Weather Bureau - 1929 - 106 pages
...2d edition : Cirrus (Ci.). — Detached clouds of delicate . and1 fibrous appearance, often shomng a featherlike structure, generally of a whitish color....shapes, such as isolated tufts, thin filaments on a b.ue sky, threads spreading out in the form of feathers, curved filaments ending in tufts, sometimes... | |
| United States. Weather Bureau - 1932 - 84 pages
...descriptions, and tables given in this section be carefully studied. CLOUD TYPES Cirrus (Ci.) (fig. 1). — Detached clouds of delicate and fibrous appearance,...often showing a featherlike structure, generally of whitish color. Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as isolated tufts, thin filaments on... | |
| 1935 - 156 pages
...Detached clouds of delicate and fibrous appearance, often showing a featherllke structure, generally of whitish color. Cirrus clouds take the most varied...filaments on a blue sky, threads spreading out in the forms of feathers, B o £ curved filaments ending in tufts, etc. They are invariably composed of ice... | |
| 1922 - 918 pages
...clouds of delicate appearance fibrous (thread-like) structure and feather-like form, generally white in color. Cirrus clouds take the most varied shapes, such as isolated tufts of hair, ie, thin filaments on a blue sky, branched filaments in feathery form, straight or curved... | |
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