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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Cloud species in which each [[cloud element]] is a small tuft with a [[cumuliform]] or rounded  appearance, the lower part of which is more or less ragged and often accompanied by [[virga]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This species is found in the genera [[cirrus]], [[cirrocumulus]], [[altocumulus]], and sometimes also  in [[stratocumulus]]. Cirrocumulus floccus sometimes evolves as the result of the dissipation of the  common base of [[cirrocumulus castellanus]]; in like manner, altocumulus floccus may evolve from  [[altocumulus castellanus]]. Cirrus floccus differs from cirrocumulus floccus in that its elements  subtend an angle of greater than 1&deg; when observed at an angle of more than 30&deg; above the [[horizon]].  <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/> </div>
<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Cloud species in which each [[cloud element]] is a small tuft with a [[cumuliform]] or rounded  appearance, the lower part of which is more or less ragged and often accompanied by [[virga]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This species is found in the genera [[cirrus]], [[cirrocumulus]], [[altocumulus]], and sometimes also  in [[stratocumulus]]. Cirrocumulus floccus sometimes evolves as the result of the dissipation of the  common base of [[cirrocumulus castellanus]]; in like manner, altocumulus floccus may evolve from  [[altocumulus castellanus]]. Cirrus floccus differs from cirrocumulus floccus in that its elements  subtend an angle of greater than 1&#x000b0; when observed at an angle of more than 30&#x000b0; above the [[horizon]].  <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/> </div>
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Cloud species in which each cloud element is a small tuft with a cumuliform or rounded appearance, the lower part of which is more or less ragged and often accompanied by virga.

This species is found in the genera cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and sometimes also in stratocumulus. Cirrocumulus floccus sometimes evolves as the result of the dissipation of the common base of cirrocumulus castellanus; in like manner, altocumulus floccus may evolve from altocumulus castellanus. Cirrus floccus differs from cirrocumulus floccus in that its elements subtend an angle of greater than 1° when observed at an angle of more than 30° above the horizon.
See cloud classification.


(Abbreviated Ac.) A principal cloud type (cloud genus), white and/or gray in color, that occurs as a layer or patch with a waved aspect, the elements of which appear as laminae, rounded masses, rolls, etc.

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