subcloud

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ cloud

Noun

subcloud (plural subclouds)

1. (meteorology) An atmospheric object smaller than a cloud
   • 2016, Ravi Shekhar, William R. Boos, “Improving Energy-Based Estimates of Monsoon Location in the Presence of Proximal Deserts”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     CQE theories that diagnose ITCZ location based on the subcloud moist static energy maximum are shown to have large biases; accounting for convective entrainment of dry air by using a lower-tropospheric mean moist static energy provides a more correct diagnosis of ITCZ location.