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We define four stage of clouds. Initial,
developing, mature, and dissipating cloud. The
four cloud types are classified by cloud albedo
and cloud top pressure in GOES.
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Cloud Type

• TYPE1 initial clouds - low and thin cloud (2 -
  3km)
• Cloud albedolt0.4, 500mb lt cloud pressure lt 850mb
• TYPE2 developing clouds - low and thick (2 -
  6km)
• 0.4ltCloud albedo, 500mb lt cloud pressure lt 850mb
• TYPE3 mature clouds - high and thick (2 10km)
• 0.4ltCloud albedo, 100mb lt cloud pressure lt 500mb
• TYPE4 dissipating clouds - high and thin (8
  10km)
• Cloud albedolt0.4, 100mb lt cloud pressure lt 500mb