{ "model": { "rank": 8824, "code": "thing-q40748", "model_id": "vr.tr.cirrocumulus", "name": "cirrocumulus", "purpose": "Let an agent explain cirrocumulus, relay appearance, formation, species and weather significance from WMO and meteorology sources, describe the named species and flag the Moazagotl alias, and distinguish cirrocumulus from altocumulus, cirrus, cirrostratus and aircraft contrails.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q40748/", "tier": 2, "score": 49, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "cirrocumulus floccus", "cirrocumulus stratiformis", "cirrocumulus castellanus", "cirrocumulus lenticularis", "Moazagotl" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 49, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.cirrocumulus", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q40748", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40748", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T23:07:57Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q40748", "registryId": "vr.tr.cirrocumulus", "name": "cirrocumulus", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q40748/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.cirrocumulus", "name": "cirrocumulus", "purpose": "Let an agent explain cirrocumulus, relay appearance, formation, species and weather significance from WMO and meteorology sources, describe the named species and flag the Moazagotl alias, and distinguish cirrocumulus from altocumulus, cirrus, cirrostratus and aircraft contrails.", "definition": "A high-level cloud genus, abbreviated Cc, forming at roughly 5 to 12 kilometres, consisting of small white rippled or grainy cloudlets arranged in patches, sheets or layers, made mostly of ice crystals with some supercooled water droplets, producing the pattern called a mackerel sky, with species the WMO International Cloud Atlas lists as stratiformis, lenticularis, castellanus and floccus; the registry alias Moazagotl names a local foehn wave cloud seen over the Silesian Riesengebirge, usually classified as altocumulus lenticularis, and appears loosely filed. Cirrocumulus is relatively rare and short-lived and does not itself produce precipitation reaching the ground.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a cloud type.", "affordances": [ "explain appearance and formation", "relay species", "describe weather significance", "distinguish similar clouds" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Small unshaded elements", "High altitude", "Mackerel sky pattern", "Short-lived" ], "appearance": "Small white grains or ripples high in the sky without shading, like fish scales.", "visual_identification": [ "High rippled cloudlet cloud", "Cirrocumulus floccus, cirrocumulus stratiformis, cirrocumulus castellanus, cirrocumulus lenticularis, Moazagotl, mackerel sky", "Altocumulus has larger shaded elements; cirrus is fibrous; cirrostratus is a thin veil; contrails are aircraft trails" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "abbreviation", "typical_range": "Cc", "unit": "code", "note": "WMO" }, { "quantity": "altitude", "typical_range": "about 5-12", "unit": "km", "note": "varies by latitude" }, { "quantity": "cloudlet apparent width", "typical_range": "less than 1", "unit": "degree", "note": "finger width at arm s length" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "stratiformis", "lenticularis", "castellanus", "floccus", "varieties such as undulatus and lacunosus" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "high-level cloud", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is classified in", "target": "International Cloud Atlas", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "altocumulus", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "Moazagotl", "why": "loosely filed alias" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WMO International Cloud Atlas", "METAR cloud reporting conventions" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing with altocumulus", "Overstating weather forecasting folklore", "Loosely filed alias" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What cirrocumulus is.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is cirrocumulus, and how does it differ from altocumulus, cirrus, cirrostratus and contrails?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about identification, aviation weather or photography?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species", "name": "Species", "description": "Named species.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-finding", "name": "Species", "description": "Species.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are floccus, stratiformis, castellanus and lenticularis, and what is Moazagotl?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific species?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "meteorology", "name": "Meteorology", "description": "Formation.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "formation", "name": "Formation", "description": "Formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "formation-finding", "name": "Formation", "description": "Formation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does cirrocumulus form from instability at high levels?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification", "name": "Identification", "description": "Identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-finding", "name": "Identification", "description": "Identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can observers tell cirrocumulus from altocumulus by element size and shading?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "weather", "name": "Weather", "description": "Weather significance.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "forecast", "name": "Forecasting", "description": "Weather lore.", "findings": [ { "id": "forecast-finding", "name": "Forecasting", "description": "Forecasting.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the saying about mackerel skies claim, and what do meteorologists say, with views attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "aviation", "name": "Aviation", "description": "Aviation.", "findings": [ { "id": "aviation-finding", "name": "Aviation", "description": "Aviation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What turbulence or icing is associated with high cloud layers?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits aviation meteorology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Culture.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "foehn", "name": "Foehn clouds", "description": "Foehn wave clouds.", "findings": [ { "id": "foehn-finding", "name": "Foehn clouds", "description": "Foehn clouds.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the Moazagotl, and how did glider pilots use it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits lenticular cloud?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification", "description": "Howard s classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-finding", "name": "Classification", "description": "Classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did Luke Howard s 1803 classification name clouds?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Luke Howard?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "The registry alias Moazagotl should be moved to lenticular or foehn cloud entries", "Should species be separate entries?", "How should the Cloud Atlas be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cirrocumulus, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain cirrocumulus, relay appearance, formation, species and weather significance from WMO and meteorology sources, describe the named species and flag the Moazagotl alias, and distinguish cirrocumulus from altocumulus, cirrus, cirrostratus and aircraft contrails.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: cirrocumulus floccus, cirrocumulus stratiformis, cirrocumulus castellanus, cirrocumulus lenticularis, Moazagotl.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 49 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a cirrocumulus, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "cirrocumulus floccus", "cirrocumulus stratiformis", "cirrocumulus castellanus", "cirrocumulus lenticularis", "Moazagotl" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 49 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one cirrocumulus from another, and a cirrocumulus from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a cirrocumulus sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a cirrocumulus from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a cirrocumulus passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a cirrocumulus between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a cirrocumulus, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cirrocumulus is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What cirrocumulus is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of cirrocumulus are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is cirrocumulus operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of cirrocumulus and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cirrocumulus?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cirrocumulus?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cirrocumulus came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a cirrocumulus and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a cirrocumulus is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cirrocumulus, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a cirrocumulus, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a cirrocumulus is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }