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pileus

(Also called cap cloud, scarf cloud.) An accessory cloud of small horizontal extent, often cirriform, in the form of a cap, hood, or scarf, which occurs above or attached to the top of a cumulus or cumulonimbus (less often stratocumulus) cloud that often pierces it.

Sometimes several pileus clouds are observed above each other. Pileus is formed as a moist layer locally lifted due to rising cloud below.
See cloud classification.

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-<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(<br/>''Also called'' [[cap cloud]], scarf cloud.) An [[accessory cloud]] of small horizontal extent, often  [[cirriform]], in the form of a cap, hood, or scarf, which occurs above or attached to the top of a  [[cumulus]] or [[cumulonimbus]] (less often [[stratocumulus]]) [[cloud]] that often pierces it.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Sometimes several pileus clouds are observed above each other. Pileus is formed as a moist layer  locally lifted due to rising cloud below. <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/>  </div>
+<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(''Also called'' [[cap cloud]], scarf cloud.) An [[accessory cloud]] of small horizontal extent, often  [[cirriform]], in the form of a cap, hood, or scarf, which occurs above or attached to the top of a  [[cumulus]] or [[cumulonimbus]] (less often [[stratocumulus]]) [[cloud]] that often pierces it.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Sometimes several pileus clouds are observed above each other. Pileus is formed as a moist layer  locally lifted due to rising cloud below. <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/>  </div>
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