What kind of clouds are these?

In an effort to better keyword my images I'm trying to also include correct and scientific keywords for things such as wildlife, clouds and flowers. Flowers and wildlife are easy but clouds are a little more open to interpretation in some cases. Any of you experts care to help a brutha out and tell me what kind of clouds these are? I would very much appreciate it!

Fluffy ones! try this: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

Good luck with that, Bret. I just finished a submission that asked for various types of clouds (you might be prepping for the same thing), and quite frankly, I gave up even trying to submit pics of many of the requested cloud types. A few are obvious, so I went with those, but you're right, an awful lot of them look very, very similar to the untrained eye. Looking at your photo, there appears to be a multitude of cloud types in that one scene.

FWIW, if you do a search of clouds on Wiki, there are links to each cloud type at the bottom of the page, and most have a picture. There's also something called the Cloud Appreciation Society, but frankly, looking through their galleries, I got even more mixed up trying to tag different cloud types in my photos. I had, at minimum, three browser windows open, and switched back and forth between them, before deciding to give up trying to name some of the similar ones.

That's easy. They are white ones!

Todd: Yep, prepping for the same submission.

I tried to use Wikipedia but got confused looking through the different cloud varieties. I think there are at least two different kinds of clouds in this image but I'm just not sure. I think I'll go with "White Ones". Good suggestion, Brian!

I looked at cloud charts when i was 4 years old, but honestly even as a meteorologist i dont get caught up in the cloud identification thing, at least not to the extent some folks do. But this is really pretty simple, there's plain old cirrus in the background, and plain old cumulus in the front. The cirrus is probably associated with the jet stream, looks pretty high to me--im guessing 30K ft plus, while the cumulus look like theyre forming as a result of snow sublimating off the peaks--you can even see a hint of a "banner cloud" over the highest peak, where the wind is carrying the moisture/evaporating ice/snow off to the right with the wind. It looks moderately turbulent, which is why the cu looks a bit ragged/shredded. There ya have it!

Bret, here is a link sponsered by NCAR (National Association for Atmospheric Research headquartered in Boulder). This might be your best bet. I know they have 1 or 2 on staff photographers that go out to specifically photograph cloud types and identify them.
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html

I concur with Stan, Cumulus and Cirrus. I am a severe weather photographer and my body of work is "Skyscapes" and I rarely categories the type of cloud formation except for mammatus, wall clouds and tornado (and I don't think the later 2 are even cloud categories are they Stan?).

Thanks for the help, everyone. Much appreciated!