Up ahead, the tips of the Transantarctics pierced the stratocumulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Incognita]

My current area of study is aerosol impacts on stratocumulus microphysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asphalt « Climate Audit] Reference

Warming since 1975 is caused by loss of oceanic low level stratocumulus cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #3 « Climate Audit] Reference

Fantastic clouds, however I think they are regular old fashion stratocumulus clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cloudy] Reference

They especially subtropical stratocumulus are believed to be important coolers of the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit] Reference

Finally, a few hundred kilometers behind the front, scattered stratocumulus are common in the lower troposphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air masses and frontal transitional zones] Reference

When we drove to the skiway, rays of the butterscotch light of late summer were shining through the stratocumulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Incognita]

What he was looking at, actually, was just a stratocumulus back-lit by the retreating sun but he was beginning to feel sorry he did that anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Box]

So they try to play with the “stratocumulus” clouds, replace their description by a different framework, and the results are still very poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penetrating Radiation « Climate Audit] Reference

The sun, as if wanting to listen in, as if there might be something new under it, after all, fought off the curdling stratocumulus and moved in closer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

Clouds in the downdraft regions are typically low ones, like stratocumulus, that operate somewhat independently of what is happening in the air above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Gray Presentation « Climate Audit] Reference

What I see are the green hills, blue sky, and stratocumulus and cirrus clouds of the Napa County bitmap landscape called Bliss, the Microsoft Windows XP default desktop wallpaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me] Reference

Otherwise, however, operational weather modifiers who want to have an effect on agriculture and surface-water supplies have to work with the far more dynamic environment of stacked and vertically developing clouds — which include thunderstorms and the infinitely chaotic mixtures of stratocumulus associated with frontal bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weather as Weapon] Reference

Geoengineering schemes sound like they're pulled straight from pulp sci-fi novels: Fertilize the oceans with iron in order to sequester carbon dioxide; launch fleets of ships to whip up sea spray and enhance the solar reflectivity of marine stratocumulus clouds; use trillions of tiny spacecraft to form a sunshade a million miles from Earth in perfect solar orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can a Million Tons of Sulfur Dioxide Combat Climate Change?] Reference

The type of cloud being investigated is known as a marine stratocumulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed] Reference

Horsey pump with stratocumulus; this is one of the best preserved wind pump in the Broads.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAALIE] Reference

J. Haywood, and O. Boucher 2009: Climate impacts of geoengineering marine stratocumulus clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference

Marine stratocumulus clouds have open cells (sky in the middle) and closed cells (cloudy in the middle).    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The new droplets form low marine stratocumulus clouds, which cover about a quarter of the world's ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gyre.org - Tracking the Next Military and Technological Revolutions] Reference

The Colorado center also is researching the brightening of maritime stratocumulus clouds with seawater droplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The Colorado centre also is researching the brightening of maritime stratocumulus clouds with seawater droplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Out beyond the islands, a dazzling stripe on the underside of distant stratocumulus indicated the presence of sea ice below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The flat sheets of stratocumulus cloud that spread out over the ocean naturally reflect a portion of solar energy out to space.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Earth] Reference

We could make out Scafell Pike - England's highest mountain, lest we forget - but the Old Man of Coniston, Great Gable and faraway Morecombe Bay were lost in the mysteries of stratocumulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

At the same time, cold air stratocumulus clouds are moving into the center of circulation helping it change to extra-tropical status (where the warm core air is replaced by cold air in the core of the storm).    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

According to meteorologists, there will be a layer of scattered stratocumulus clouds between 2,500 feet and 5,000 feet, scattered altostratus clouds between 10,000 feet and 12,000 feet, and scattered cirrus clouds between 28,000 feet and 34,000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE.com] Reference

Hope Cloud Nine appreciates such a classy stratocumulus commingling:).    From Wordnik.com.  [She's done it!] Reference

(about 3/4 of a mile) over the ocean, where they are known as marine stratocumulus clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

I’ve been expecting a close correlation between sluggish and hence highly polluted water and stratocumulus reduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Ocean Temperature Trends « Climate Audit] Reference

There’s real lightning coming from the north, a towering bank of dark stratocumulus rising forty thousand feet or higher into the hot afternoon sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

"The cloud in the photo is either a stratocumulus cloud or a very small cumulus cloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference

300-tonne ships that could spray micrometre-sized drops of seawater into the air under stratocumulus clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

"Cirrus, cumulus, stratocumulus, public and private," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs]