Yes exactly the same airmass.
I hope this is just an incorrect translation of word “connect” that is the issue here, as this casue and effect relation that airmass warmed by ground, rising to the condensation height is the direct cause of the Cu cloud (and also the strongest factor of lift under typical Cu cloud, and not some “cloud thermal”) is fundamental to the whole problem of current thermal implementation - where “ground” thermals are not related to clouds, and separate to “cloud thermals” - while in RL this is exactly the same air that simply rised to the condensation height.
ANRI you already posted an illustration on discord that exactly shows this:
Air from section “a” rising to the condensation height showed in section “b” forms a cloud, when heat source stops generating rising air in section b and c, there is still some time till the rest of the rising from ground source air arrives to condensation height, then there is still some lift generated by latent heat of condensation so the cloud still lives for some time but the dissipation starts (section “d”).
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