Closed-cell stratocumulus
From Glossary of Meteorology
closed-cell stratocumulus
A term often used to describe satellite-viewed oceanic stratocumulus associated with an inversion.
Closed-cell patterns are composed of cloud elements of almost hexagonal shape, bounded at their edges with a cloud-free space.
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