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The system that names clouds by form and height rather than by casual description, built from Latin roots, cirrus for a lock of hair, cumulus for a heap, stratus for a layer, and nimbus for a rain cloud, plus compounds and modifiers for the forms between them. Luke Howard proposed it in a paper read to the Askesian Society in 1802. The World Meteorological Organization's International Cloud Atlas still uses Howard's genus names as its base vocabulary, extended but not replaced by nearly two centuries of observation.
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