Template:Cloud types
Cloud genera and selected species, supplementary features, and other airborne hydrometeors - WMO Latin terminology except where indicated |
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Mesospheric | Extreme-level 80–85 km | Noctilucent (NLC) Polar mesospheric clouds |
- Noctilucent type I veils
- Noctilucent type II bands
- Noctilucent type III billows
- Noctilucent type IV whirls
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Stratospheric | |
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Tropospheric | High-level 3–18 km | |
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Medium-level 2–8 km | |
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Low-level 0–2 km | |
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Non-height specific | Varieties | |
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Supplementary features | |
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Mother clouds and human-made clouds |
- (Mother cloud)+genitus (e.g. cumulogenitus (cugen)
- (Mother cloud)+mutatus (e.g. cumulomutatus (cumut)
- Homogenitus (hogen)
- Homomutatus (homut)
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