Accessory Cloud

Accessory clouds
An accessory cloud is a cloud accompanying or adjacent cloud mass to another cloud, generally smaller than the latter, and separated from its principal part, ...

Accessory Clouds - Clouds that are dependent on a larger cloud system for development and continuance. Accessory clouds associated with the thunderstorm include roll, shelf, mammatus, and wall clouds.

Accessory Cloud A cloud which is dependent on a larger cloud system for development and continuance. Roll clouds, shelf clouds, and wall clouds are examples of accessory clouds.

accessory cloud"A cloud form that is dependent, for its formation and continuation, upon the existence of one of the major cloud genera.

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A cloud which is dependent on a larger cloud system for development and continuance. Roll clouds, shelf clouds, and wall clouds are examples of accessory clouds.

ACCESSORY CLOUD - A cloud or cloud feature that is dependant on a larger weather system for its formation. Beavers tails, wall clouds, and scud are all examples of accessory clouds.

Roll cloudA relatively rare, low-level horizontal, tube-shaped accessory cloud completely detached from the cumulonimbus base.

forms of clouds; 2) species¾[—]the peculiarities in shape and differences in internal structure of clouds; 3) varieties¾[—]special characteristics of arrangement and transparency of clouds; 4) supplementary features and accessory ...

roll cloud (sometimes improperly called rotor cloud)—A dense and horizontal roll-shaped accessory cloud located on the lower leading edge of a cumulonimbus or less often, a rapidly developing cumulus; indicative of turbulence.

See also: Cloud, Nimbus, Clouds, Cumulonimbus, Horizon