Appendix A. Percent Frequency of Occurrence of Extended Code Values for Cloud Variables in Edited Cloud Reports (Light). Also: percent that reported code occurs with precipitation and percent of total precipitation that occurs with each code value. (rpts=reports) __________________________________________________________________________________ TOTAL CLOUD AMOUNT N CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LAND % of rpts 0.0 15.3 6.9 7.6 5.9 4.3 6.0 10.1 18.3 24.1 1.5 % with ppt 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.2 0.3 0.5 1.0 2.4 8.0 34.3 28.8 % of ppt 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.6 2.4 14.0 78.4 4.1 SHIP % of rpts 0.0 5.8 5.0 7.6 9.0 8.0 7.4 11.8 14.0 28.0 3.5 % with ppt 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.5 1.1 2.0 3.7 7.0 22.6 26.7 % of ppt 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.5 1.0 1.7 4.9 10.9 70.3 10.4 LOWER CLOUD AMOUNT Nh CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LAND % of rpts 2.6 25.6 11.2 10.9 7.9 5.7 5.8 6.7 8.9 14.6 0.0 % with ppt 11.7 0.5 1.1 2.9 5.3 8.7 12.3 16.0 16.1 37.8 0.0 % of ppt 2.9 1.2 1.2 3.0 4.0 4.7 6.8 10.3 13.7 52.3 0.0 SHIP % of rpts 15.3 8.5 6.4 9.8 9.4 7.9 6.4 7.8 7.8 20.7 0.0 % with ppt 9.0 0.1 0.6 1.1 2.1 3.9 6.0 8.8 10.0 24.6 0.0 % of ppt 15.3 0.1 0.4 1.2 2.2 3.5 4.3 7.6 8.6 56.8 0.0 LOWER CLOUD HEIGHT h CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LAND % of rpts 19.8 1.7 0.5 1.9 3.1 13.3 23.0 10.6 3.4 1.6 21.1 % with ppt 3.4 28.6 38.0 42.3 39.3 23.1 9.6 5.8 5.8 8.2 4.3 % of ppt 6.4 4.7 2.0 7.8 11.5 29.2 20.9 5.8 1.9 1.2 8.7 SHIP % of rpts 22.5 4.1 1.1 4.0 12.2 24.3 18.6 5.8 2.2 2.0 3.1 % with ppt 6.7 25.6 29.6 27.6 16.8 7.7 4.0 2.8 2.3 1.8 1.1 % of ppt 16.9 11.6 3.8 12.5 22.9 21.0 8.3 1.8 0.6 0.4 0.4 LOW CLOUD TYPE Cu Cu Cb Sc Sc St St Sc Cb Cb Fg CL CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 LAND % of rpts 2.6 38.3 6.3 10.2 2.4 2.2 15.5 4.0 3.8 5.9 6.6 0.1 1.1 % with ppt 11.7 4.7 0.8 4.0 18.3 5.2 11.7 14.4 67.2 8.7 28.6 100 0.0 % of ppt 2.9 17.1 0.5 3.9 4.2 1.1 17.2 5.5 24.3 4.9 17.8 0.5 0.0 SHIP % of rpts 15.3 13.3 11.4 13.5 5.4 6.0 10.8 5.9 6.6 6.5 2.6 0.1 2.6 % with ppt 9.0 6.8 0.7 2.4 9.2 3.3 7.7 22.3 34.5 7.2 21.9 100 0.0 % of ppt 15.3 10.1 0.9 3.7 5.6 2.2 9.3 14.6 25.3 5.2 6.4 1.4 0.0 MIDDLE CLOUD TYPE As As Ac Ac Ac Ac Ac Ac Ac Ns Ns Ns CM CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 LAND % of rpts 17.6 45.9 1.4 2.6 10.8 4.4 1.6 1.5 7.1 1.0 0.1 2.6 0.7 2.8 % with ppt 15.0 1.0 17.7 7.4 2.6 2.0 3.8 7.3 4.6 2.2 9.2 100 100 100 % of ppt 25.0 4.6 2.4 1.8 2.6 0.8 0.6 1.0 3.1 0.2 0.1 24.5 6.9 26.4 SHIP % of rpts 36.1 26.8 3.5 4.6 5.1 3.8 2.9 4.9 4.8 2.0 1.4 2.8 0.2 1.2 % with ppt 9.4 0.9 3.9 3.5 2.2 2.4 2.9 6.4 3.0 3.1 7.6 100 100 100 % of ppt 37.5 2.7 1.5 1.8 1.2 1.0 1.0 3.5 1.6 0.7 1.2 31.2 2.4 12.8 HIGH CLOUD TYPE Cic Cid Cid Cic Cs Cs Cs Cs Cic CH CODE -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 LAND % of rpts 33.2 36.3 11.5 10.5 0.9 0.8 0.8 1.8 1.9 1.9 0.4 % with ppt 28.4 1.0 1.3 1.7 6.2 0.8 1.5 2.4 11.3 2.4 1.9 % of ppt 89.6 3.6 1.4 1.7 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.4 2.1 0.4 0.1 SHIP % of rpts 50.9 28.8 5.7 3.2 1.2 2.1 1.5 1.5 1.1 2.4 1.5 % with ppt 15.9 1.4 2.4 2.5 4.4 1.7 1.4 2.4 3.8 2.5 2.5 % of ppt 90.1 4.4 1.5 0.9 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.4 __________________________________________________________________________________