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page 1Stratus
stratus
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genus of clouds
stratocumulus
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Camanchaca
thumb|The camanchaca, mist over the Atacama Desert, Chile.
thumb|Camanchaca in Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park
Camanchacas are marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form on the Chilean coast, proximal to the Earth's driest desert, the Atacama Desert, and move inland. In Peru, a similar fog is called garúa, and in Angola cacimbo. On the side of the mountains where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense fog that does not produce rain. The moisture that makes up the cloud measure between 1 and 40 microns across, too fine to form rain droplets.
stratus nebulosus
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cirrostratus fibratus
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cirrostratus nebulosus
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stratocumulus lenticularis
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stratocumulus volutus
cloud species