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overcast
Definição1
The cloud layer that covers most or all of the sky.
Fonte1
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. ICAO abbreviations and codes: procedures for air navigation services. 7th ed. Montreal, 2007. (Doc. 8400)
Definição2
An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, when the sky is completely covered by an obscuring phenomenon. This is applied only when obscuring phenomenon aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomenon are surface-based, such as fog.
Fonte2
BRASIL. Comando da Aeronáutica. Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo. Publicação de informação aeronáutica - AIP: GEN 2 - tabelas e códigos. Rio de Janeiro, 2013. Disponível em: www.aisweb.aer.mil.br/.../AIP.../05-1B3EDEB9-04DA-4D5B-B3126D71468CC759.pdf. Acesso em: 09 dez. 2014.
Definição3
Sky with a cloud cover of 8 oktas
Fonte3
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. Glossary of meteorology. [S.l., última modificação 05 oct. 2015]. Disponível em: < http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
Fonte4
UNITED STATES. National Weather Service. National weather service glossary. [20-?]. In: ______. [Homepage]. [Silver Spring, MD, 20-?]. Disponível em: < https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
Nota adicional1
Acronym in English: OVC.
Nota adicional2
Information regarding this term is a result of researches developed by DECEA in cooperation with ANAC.
Contexto
The location of the CB and/or TCU should be specified in addition to any widespread areas of broken or overcast cloud.
Subárea
Aeronautical Meteorology
Related Term
cloudy
Spanish
cielo cubierto