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  • January 18, 2017 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Rules for Order of Species, Varieties #192898
    Maria Ruth avatarMaria Ruth
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    My error. The link below should take you to the 2016 draft, which begins with the preface to the 1939 edition of the ICA and includes the prefaces of the 19566, 1975, and 1987 editions (no photos). There are quite a few blank pages for the new preface and other material still being added but what is useful is the areas, highlighted in yellow by the ICA editors, showing new material, including asperitas!

    https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/ICA/2016_First_Section_draft1_en.pdf

    Maria

     

     

     

    January 18, 2017 at 4:30 am in reply to: Origin of the word cloud #192757
    Maria Ruth avatarMaria Ruth
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    You might find this Oxford University Press blog entry by etymologist Anatoly Liberman interesting:

    http://blog.oup.com/2016/07/cloud-etymology-word-origins/

    Funny about vapor (which is invisible). This author defines a cloud as “that mass of vapor we see in the sky.”

     

     

    January 15, 2017 at 6:32 pm in reply to: Rules for Order of Species, Varieties #192441
    Maria Ruth avatarMaria Ruth
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    Thank you so much for your detailed detective work on the “rules” of adding variety names to cloud species. It looks like “predominance” is the key. I am amused thinking that fixing a name to a cloud only works for clouds in photographs. Observers of the clouds in real time might find that by the time they name an altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus undulatas radiatus, the cloud has changed enough to make that name obsolete!

    I can hardly wait until March! For now and for free, you can find a 2016 draft of the new ICA Vol I online here http://wmo-cloudatlas.org/index.php/en/  Under the “Links” tab, you will see ICA Vol.1 and ICA Vol.2.

    Again, thank you for your help on this topic.

     

     

    January 10, 2017 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Rules for Order of Species, Varieties #191703
    Maria Ruth avatarMaria Ruth
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    Thank you for your responses. I am looking for any published rules for adding the variety names (after genus and species are chosen) in the “correct” order. For instance, is an altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus undulatus radiatus the same (and as correct) as an altocumulus stratiformis radiatus undulatus perlucidus? Are the names added in order of dominance of the particular feature as noted by the observer?

    I have not been able to find these rules in WMO documents or elsewhere. Perhaps there are no rules (who would enforce them?!) but I would like to know if possible.

    Thanks!

     

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