Tabular overview

Tabular overview
The table that follows is very broad in scope. It draws from several methods of cloud classification, both formal and informal, used in different levels of the Earth’s homosphere by a number of cited authorities, especially with respect to forms,[3] altitude levels,[4] form

s and levels,[5] towering vertical clouds,[6] and clouds above the troposphere.[7] Despite some differences in nomenclature, the classification schemes seen in this article can be combined by using an informal cross-classification of physical forms and altitude levels to derive the 10 tropospheric genera, the fog and mist that forms at surface level, and several additional major types above t

he troposphere. The cumulus genus includes four species that indicate vertical size which can affect the altitude levels. This table should not be seen as a strict or singular classification, but as an illustration of how various major cloud types are related to each other and defined through a full range of altitude levels from Earth’s surface to the “edge of space.”