CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATIONBY: SARAH AWCKLAND

The adiabatic temperature changes and expansion and

cooling

Heat that change if there is not energy add or subtracted from it

When it is heat or cooling in unsaturated dry adiabatic rate When it is heat or cooling in saturated air it is called wet adiabatic rate

http://www.richhoffmanclass.com/chapter4.html

Orographic lifting is like when a mountains act like

a stopping point to get it to go high up

http://ocw.usu.edu/Forest__Range__and_Wildlife_Sciences/Wildland_Fire_Management_and_Planning/Unit_7__Atmospheric_Stability_and_Instability_3.html

A Frontal wedging

The process that happen want the cooler masses goes lower then the hotter masses

http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw/wc.notes/4.moisture.atm.stability/frontal_wedging.htm

Convergence

The lifting of the air that make the atmosphere flow together

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/sign_in.php?go_back_to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.meted.ucar.edu%252Fradar%252Fsevere_signatures%252Fprint_llconv.htm

Localized Convective lifting

Is when air pocket is made and then the surrounding air make the air pocket less density

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect14/Sect14_1c.html

Stability

The time when air temperature increases The most stable time

http://www.epa.gov/AMD/Library/AnnualReports/2008.html

Condensation

Is fog or dew

http://www.earthzine.org/2010/06/21/a-surprising-side-effect-of-climate-change-a-fog-of-confusion/

Types of clouds

Cirrus are high clouds Cumulus are middle

clouds Stratus are low clouds

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html

High clouds Called cirrocumulus White and thin clouds Made up of ice

crystalshttp://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satmet/modules/clouds/highclouds.html

Middle clouds Their called altocumulus clouds They are larger and denser

clouds They get us light snow or drizzle

http://ketiltrout.net/ice/gallery.cgi?e=006

Low clouds There are three part of low clouds are

stratus, stratocumulus and nimbostratus

http://www.instructables.com/id/Predicting-Weather-with-Clouds/step9/Low-clouds/

Clouds of vertical Development

Some clouds do not go in the range of high, middle, and low. They go in the middle of the range or they are to low to be called low clouds

http://www.bigbranch.net/cumulus.htm

Fog (by cooling and by

evaporation) Fog is not different then a

cloud Fog is cloud on the ground or

right above the ground

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/jkl/?n=fog_types

Cold cloud precipitation

(Bergeron process) This is want a liquid is at 0 degrees C

Can freeze a solid object

http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2010/06/amount-of-dust-pollen-matters-for-cloud.html

Warm cloud precipitation

(collision-coalescence

process) Is when the air fully

saturated

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=warmrainpaper

Rain and Snow Snow is rain falling and turn in to

snowflakes Rain is water that fall from clouds and

they have to be at least 0.5mm big

http://aumusiclibrary.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/rain-helens-picks-for-a-rainy-afternoon/

Sleet, Glaze and Hail

Sleet is small particles of clear to translucent ice

Glaze is the fall as rain drops and turn to ice went hit the ground

Hail are small pellets of ice

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cae/svrwx/hail.htm

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