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The society has already scored one skybreaking success - the discovery of the first new form of cloud in half a century, dubbed "asperatus" after the Latin for "making rough", because it is supposed to look like a sea surface on a stormy day.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
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He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.
Cloudy The Year in Pictures 2009
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He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2009
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The Royal Meteorological Society is now gathering detailed information for the days and locations where the asperatus clouds have been seen in an attempt to understand exactly what is causing them.
Meteorologists Attempting To Have ‘Asperatus’ Clouds Officially Named | Impact Lab 2009
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If it makes the cut, asperatus will be the first new addition in more than 50 years.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
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Dubbed undulatus asperatus (turbulent undulation), the atmospheric anomaly could be headed where only 80-odd clouds have gone before: into the International Cloud Atlas.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
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If it makes the cut, asperatus will be the first new addition in more than 50 years. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
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Dubbed undulatus asperatus (turbulent undulation), the atmospheric anomaly could be headed where only 80-odd clouds have gone before: into the International Cloud Atlas.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Armageddon with scattered undulatus asperatus By Mike Olson 2009
bilby commented on the word asperatus
Proposed name - full moniker undulatus asperatus - for a 'new' cloud. See here and here.
August 29, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word asperatus
That's really cool. I'm sure Luke Howard would have approved.
August 29, 2010