CMDescriptions = new Array();

CMDescriptions["Af"] = "Arctic Fronts are accompanied by mostly low and some mid-level clouds.";

CMDescriptions["BbOccl"] = "A Back-Bent Occlusion is that part of an Occlusion cloud spiral which reforms into a Cold Front band with some cyclonic curvature with the approach of a cold air mass.";

CMDescriptions["BclB"] = "A Baroclinic Boundary is accompanied by a stationary front-like cloud band situated at synoptic positions which are not typical for classical fronts.";

CMDescriptions["CAD"] = "A Cold Air Development describes the increase of a Comma to a synoptic scale cloud spiral having similarities with an Occlusion stage.";

CMDescriptions["Cb"] = "Small bright cloud cells and cell complexes, accompanying convection and unstable processes.";

CMDescriptions["CbC"] = "Cb Clusters consist of a cluster of thicker and larger cloud cells within the usual cold air cloudiness behind fronts. It differs from ECs by a looser structure and different cell sizes.";

CMDescriptions["CCb"] = "A CCB Occlusion is accompanied by a distinct cloud spiral; the cloud of the CCB Occlusion protrudes below the WF-CF cloud band and has lower tops.";

CMDescriptions["Cf"] = "Cold Fronts are accompanied by synoptic scale multilayered cloud bands.";

CMDescriptions["CfCa"] = "Cloud bands of Cold Fronts in Cold Advection are very similar to those of Cold Fronts, but because of their relationship with temperature advection, they are often weaker and have a higher tendency for weakening.";

CMDescriptions["CfSp"] = "A Split Front is very similar to a Cold Front cloud band but shows a distinct double structure with cold (high) tops at the leading and warm (low) tops to the rear.";

CMDescriptions["CFW"] = "A preferred area for the initial development of deep convection is the boundary of Dark Stripes in the WV images.";

CMDescriptions["CfWa"] = "Cloud bands of Cold Fronts in Warm Advection are very similar to those of Cold Fronts, but because of their relation to temperature advection are often weaker and have a higher tendency for weakening.";

CMDescriptions["CLE"] = "A typical location for the development of Cbs and MCSs is at the leading edge of frontal cloud bands.";

CMDescriptions["ClStr"] = "Small cloud cells arranged in parallel lines often found in cold air cloudiness.";

CMDescriptions["Co"] = "A Comma is an active, mesoscale cloud spiral in the cold air behind frontal cloud bands, often with significant weather.";

CMDescriptions["CoConv"] = "Small scale low and middle level clouds form near the coast as a consequence of differential friction.";

CMDescriptions["ConOro"] = "Development of convective cells and Cbs over mountain chains through confluence within a diurnal cycle.";

CMDescriptions["ConvNOr"] = "Lines of convective cells in advance of a Cold Front cloud band developing according to a diurnal cycle.";

CMDescriptions["ConvSaL"] = "Small scale lines of convective cells as a result of confluence in a land/sea system.";

CMDescriptions["Conv"] = "Unstructured cloud fields developing in areas of pronounced convergence.";

CMDescriptions["CPV"] = "PV anomalies (stratospheric values of PV low down in the troposphere) are preferred areas for the development of Cbs and MCSs.";

CMDescriptions["CWS"] = "A preferred area for the initial development of deep convection is the maximum of warm air in the warm sector in front of Cold Fronts.";

CMDescriptions["DaStr"] = "Rather narrow dark stripes in WV images, representing dry sinking air along the cyclonic side of a jet stream.";

CMDescriptions["Def"] = "Cloud bands or lines which form within a deformation field and stretch or dissolve under the influence of elongation.";

CMDescriptions["EC"] = "Enhanced Cumulus areas (ECs) consist of a cluster of thicker and larger cloud cells within the usual cold air cloudiness behind frontal cloud bands.";

CMDescriptions["FD"] = "Mesoscale areas of cloud dissolution within frontal cloud bands driven by sinking cold air on the anticyclonic side of a jet streak.";

CMDescriptions["FgStr"] = "Smooth, very low cloud sheets with warm tops called Stratus unless reaching the ground in which case they are Fog.";

CMDescriptions["Fh"] = "Foehn is a wind system created by the impact of orographic obstacles like mountains on the flow, which often shows a typical cloud structure.";

CMDescriptions["FM"] = "Orography has a strong influence on the propagation of frontal cloud bands; some parts can be retarded which might result in a delay or a decoupling of clouds at different heights. Also, fronts can be rapidly intensified or rapidly shifted.";

CMDescriptions["InOc"] = "During an Instant Occlusion process, a Comma approaches and merges with a frontal cloud band. As a consequence, an Occlusion-like form of a cloud spiral develops.";

CMDescriptions["JeCl"] = "Jet Fibres are long and narrow bands of high clouds caused by the Jet streak. They usually form directly attached to Cold Fronts or Warm Front Shields.";

CMDescriptions["JeIn"] = "Development of thicker and mostly more convective cloud within a frontal cloud band in the left exit region of a jet streak during frontal crossing.";

CMDescriptions["JeWe"] = "Upper Waves are cloud bulges at the rear edge of Cold Front cloud bands. They are associated with upper level processes and do not develop.";

CMDescriptions["LeeCl"] = "Middle level cloud streets and/or high level cloud sheets extending from the mountain ridges to the lee side. They develop when the wind stream is almost perpendicular to the mountain barrier.";

CMDescriptions["OCC"] = "Open Cell Convection and Closed Cell Convection are the result of processes involving air mass modification. Boundary layer processes are driving factors in such a development.";

CMDescriptions["Occl"] = "A WCB Occlusion is accompanied by a distinct cloud spiral; clouds of all three frontal parts CF, WF and WCB Occlusion are multilayered.";

CMDescriptions["PL"] = "Polar Lows look very similar to Commas but usually occur in northern latitudes. They develop under more specific synoptic conditions when compared to the more general features of a Comma.";

CMDescriptions["RaCy"] = "Rapid Cyclogenesis describes a very fast and intensive development of an Occlusion cloud spiral from a low level cloud head. Upper air processes are driving factors in such a development.";

CMDescriptions["SB"] = "Development of thermally driven circulation between sea and land, often resulting in organized convective cloudiness in the vicinity of coastlines.";

CMDescriptions["ScSh"] = "Unstructured patches of low cloud within a stable stratified troposphere.";

CMDescriptions["SLC"] = "Secondary Low Centres are small scale cloud vortices which develop within already mature Occlusion cloud bands.";

CMDescriptions["SPl"] = "One typical occurence of Cbs and MCSs is within the area of hot air over Spain, in front of an approaching Cold Front.";

CMDescriptions["Stau"] = "Low and middle level cloudiness develops at the windward side of mountains if the wind streams almost perpendicularly to the mountain barrier.";

CMDescriptions["THR"] = "Organised cloudiness in the thickness ridge in front of a Cold Front which can be extremely convective in unstable situations.";

CMDescriptions["ULL"] = "Cut off low in upper levels without corresponding surface low, accompanied by cloud bands at the boundaries and convective cloud in the low center.";

CMDescriptions["WCB"] = "Middle and high level cloud in a rising warm, moist air stream relative to its system velocity.";

CMDescriptions["WfBa"] = "Warm Front Bands are accompanied by cloud bands which usually are shorter than Cold Front cloud bands.";

CMDescriptions["WfSc"] = "Warm Front Shields are accompanied by cloud shields comprising the areas of the warm sector and the Warm Front.";

CMDescriptions["WfFr"] = "A Detached Warm Front shows a cloud configuration similar to that of a Warm Front Band, but is detached (isolated) from the Cold Front cloud band. It can be found at the leading edge of an upper level/thickness ridge.";

CMDescriptions["We"] = "Waves are cloud bulges at the rear edge of Cold Front cloud bands, indicating the initial stage of secondary cyclogenesis.";

CMDescriptions["WVV"] = "Vortices at different scales in the WV image; small scale dark circles (eyes) represent sinking stratospheric air.";