Cloud Classification

Question 1

What is a stratus cloud?

Answer 1

Flat and smooth

Question 2

Whats a cumulus cloud?

Answer 2

Puffy

Question 3

Whats a cirrus cloud?

Answer 3

Feathery/whispery

Question 4

Whats a nimbus cloud?

Answer 4

Rain bearing.

Question 5

What is the base altitude of high level clouds in metres?

Answer 5

> 5000m

Question 6

What is the base altitude of med level clouds?

Answer 6

2000-7000m

Question 7

What is the base altitude of low level clouds?

Answer 7

2000 m max

Question 8

What is the state of water when its zero to minus ten within a cloud?

Answer 8

Super cooled water droplets.

Question 9

What type of cloud is classed as detached?

Answer 9

Cirrus.

Question 10

What type of cloud is classed as thin sheet with no shading?

Answer 10

Cirrocumulus.

Question 11

What type of cloud is classed as transparent or white veil?

Answer 11

Cirrostratus.

Question 12

What cloud is classed as white or grey patches?

Answer 12

Altocumulus.

Question 13

What cloud is classed as greyish cloud sheet which is thin enough to show the sun.

Answer 13

Altostratus.

Question 14

Whats the difference between cirrostratus and alto stratus?

Answer 14

Altostratus cannot produce the halo phenomina.

Question 15

What cloud is classed as grey patches or layers that are non fibrous?

Answer 15

Stratocumulus.

Question 16

What cloud type is classed as grey cloud with a uniform base?

Answer 16

Stratus.

Question 17

What cloud type is classed as thick grey cloud that blocks out the sun?

Answer 17

Nimbostratus.

Question 18

What type of cloud is classed as detached clouds with sharp outlines?

Answer 18

Cumulus.

Question 19

What cloud type is classed as heavy and dense with a considerable vertical extent?

Answer 19

Cumulonimbus.

Question 20

What what height level can a nimbostratus be found?

Answer 20

Middle.

Question 21

What is a castellans?

Answer 21

Turrets or towers at the top of clouds.

Question 22

Whats a lenticularis?

Answer 22

Lens shaped clouds.

Question 23

What is a congestus?

Answer 23

Cauliflower looking tops to cumulus

Question 24

What is a cumulus congestus, of great height, also called?

Answer 24

Towering cumulus.

Question 25

Whats a calvus?

Answer 25

The breaking down of a cumulonimbus.

Question 26

What is a capillatus?

Answer 26

Anvil looking cumulonimbus.

Question 27

How many oktas is few?

Answer 27

1-2

Question 28

How many oktas is scattered?

Answer 28

3-4

Question 29

What are the oktas for broken?

Answer 29

5-7

Question 30

If you are flying visual, what ceiling should you not take off into?

Answer 30

450m/1500ft

Question 31

If you are flying visual, what visibility should you mot take off into?

Answer 31

5km

Question 32

What is the effect of the tropopause inversion on the formation of clouds within the troposphere? A cloud, reaching the inversion, may stop its ascent and the upper winds may produce a x shape,

Answer 32

Anvil

Question 33

warm over cold = x cold over warm = x

Answer 33

Stratus - cumulus

Question 34

When an aircraft is flying through a cirriform cloud at FL300, ice accretion in the engines and on the airframe is likely/unlikely oi

Answer 34

Unlikely

Question 35

The main components of a cirrostratus are:

Answer 35

Icecrystals

Question 36

The main components of a cirrostratus are:

Answer 36

Icecrystals

Question 37

Clouds in patches, sheets or grey or whitish layers made up of elements resembling large pebbles or rollers, together or not, and always clear of the ground are:

Answer 37

Stratocumulus

Question 38

Snow grains generally fall from x clouds or supercooled clouds.

Answer 38

Stratiform

Question 39

The coalescence prosses occurs at what latitude and produces light rain and drizzle?

Answer 39

Mid