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• The droplets or particles are suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body
• On Earth, clouds are formed by the saturation of air in the homosphere (which includes the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere)
• The air may be cooled to its dew point by a variety of atmospheric processes or it may gain moisture (usually in the form of water vapor) from an adjacent source
• Nephology is the science of clouds which is undertaken in the cloud physics branch of meteorology
• Cloud types in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface, have Latin names due to the universal adaptation of Luke Howard's nomenclature
• It was formally proposed in December 1802 and published for the first time the following year
• It became the basis of a modern international system that classifies these tropospheric aerosols into five physical forms and three altitude levels or étages
• These physical types, in approximate descending order of mean altitude range, include cirriform wisps and patches, stratocumuliform layers (mainly structured as rolls, ripples, and patches), cumuliform heaps and tufts, stratiform sheets, and very large cumulonimbiform heaps that often show complex structure
• The physical forms are cross-classified by altitude levels to produce ten basic genus-types or genera
• Some of these basic types are common to more than one form or more than one level, as illustrated in the stratocumuliform and cumuliform columns of the classification table below