Stratocumulus

Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer"). ❋ Peter Pesic (2011)

The low-lying stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus are where all the action is. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)

Finally, a few hundred kilometers behind the front, scattered stratocumulus are common in the lower troposphere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fantastic clouds, however I think they are regular old fashion stratocumulus clouds. ❋ The Year In Pictures (2009)

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. ❋ Chris Mooney (2008)

This gas would form droplets of sulfuric acid in stratocumulus clouds to reflect back sunlight into space. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Langewiesche, William (2008)

Warming since 1975 is caused by loss of oceanic low level stratocumulus cloud. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lack of nuclei reduces the amount of low level stratocumulus over the oceans, albedo falls and the surface warms slightly, exacerbating the stability, reducing upwelling, lowering biological breakdown of the offending oil sheen and surfactants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Tosches, Nick (2007)

My current area of study is aerosol impacts on stratocumulus microphysics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They especially subtropical stratocumulus are believed to be important coolers of the Earth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Johnson from the reply, is a graduate student in the atmospheric sciences department whose current area of study is the impact of aerosols on stratocumulus microphysics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Willis, maybe the phytoplankton effect is what the GCMs are missing when they the models fail to reproduce the low-level stratocumulus clouds over, for ex., much of the relatively cool waters in the eastern Pacific. ❋ Unknown (2006)