Cloud lithographs from 1877 book
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Thelien, I would like to see the others, please. Is there an author? (Renou wrote a Bulletin…., Paris, 1877)
As to your question, no I have not come across the type cumulo stratus. Nor is it in the ‘Bibliography of cloud nomenclature’, Appendix III of the older International Cloud Atlas, 1975.
But it does not defeat Google although ‘cirro cumulo stratus’ is more common – I suspect it is incorrect. I did not notice that Google threw up the latest ICA.
The term ‘stratiformis’ was introduced by C.C.H. (the Committee for the Study of Clouds and Hydrometeors) in 1949, hence Cirrocumulus stratiformis.
This link looks akin to one of yours
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Thellen, it would be great to see the others. They look as if they might be the engravings published in the Philosophical Magazine to illustrated the Essay on the Modifications of Clouds, written by Luke Howard in 1803, when he first proposed the naming system for clouds that we still use today. “Cumulo-stratus” was a term he introduced (along with ones like Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus, etc) but has now been replaced with Stratocumulus.
The prints look like a nice find.
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