2. Adiabatic temperature changes
and expansion and cooling
Air that changes with out heating or cooling.
Dry adiabatic is the rate of cooling or heating in non
saturated air
Wet adiabatic rate is the cooling
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/not
es/chapter6/graphics/adiab_warming.gif
3. Orographic lifting
Or graphic lifting of air is happens in elevated
terrains like mountain
It acts as a boundary and the air flows up ward
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/
ge301/press&siever12.3.png
4. Frontal Wedging
Front is a boundary between were warm and cold air
meat
Occurs when cold dence air acts a blanket over the
warmer air
http://www.geography.hu
nter.cuny.edu/~tbw/wc.n
otes/4.moisture.atm.stabi
lity/frontal.wedging.jpg
5. Localized convection
Occurs when the earths surface heats makes a warm
pocket of air warmer then the rest
It lowers the air pockets density
http://acd.ucar.edu/~randel/GPS4.gif
6. stability
Air that’s stable usually stays in the same spot
Air that’s unstable usually rises
The most stable air conditions are temperature
inversions they are when the temperature of the air
goes up with height
http://www.revisionworld.co.uk/files/salr_4
9.gif
7. Condensation
Condensation can only occur if the air is saturated
The types of condensation are dew, fog, and clouds
Condensation
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with_logo/235126/235126,1247291688,7/stock
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8. Cloud types
Clouds are categorized by there height and there
form
One type of clouds are cirrus there thin and fluffy
Cumulus are the other type of clouds they are
individual
And the last type of clouds are status clouds have
layers and cover most of the sky
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/images/clou
dchart.gif
9. High Clouds
Three types of high clouds are
cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus
Cirrocumulus is fluffy
Cirrostratus are thin layers
Cirrus clouds cover the sky
http://www.bigbranch.net/195.jpg
10. Middle clouds
Middle clouds are any were form 2000 to 6000 meters
They are made up of bigger partials then all the other
clouds
They are a grayish cover
http://www.bigbranch.net/168.jpg
11. Low Clouds
There are three types of low clouds
stratus, stratocumulus, and nimbostratus
Stratus clouds are fog like clouds that cover the sky
most of the time
Stratocumulus clouds are ling roles
Nimbostratus clouds are rain clouds
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with_logo/159841/159841,1285355433,12/stock
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61627681.jpg
12. Cloud of Vertical development
They are associated with unstable air
They are around in fair wheather
They usually end up making a rain cloud
http://www.free-online-private-pilot-
ground-school.com/images/cloud-types.gif
13. Fog
There are two different reasons for fog cooling and
evaporation
Cooling fog occurs when moist air from the pacific
moves over the California current then its pushed on
by prevailing winds
Fog caused by evaporation happens when cool moves
over water if the air gets moist enough fog happens
14. Cold Cloud Precipitation (Bergeron
process)
It’s a theory that relates to the formation of
precipitation to super cooled clouds, freezing
nuclei, and level difference of liquid water and ice.
water in a liquid state under 0 is said to be super cold
If super cold water touches an object it will freeze
15. Warm cloud
When air is saturated fully it’s the same as ice that’s
fully saturated
The collision coalescence process is a theory of how
raindrops form in warm cloud making cloud droplets
collide to for a rain drop
16. Rain and snow
The types of precipitation are rain and snow
Rain is water falling from clouds when the
temperatures is above 4 at the service
Snow happens when low temperatures and low
moisture and is made up of six sided crystals
17. Sleet, Glaze and Hail
Sleet is the fall of clear ice a layer of air has to over line
the ground for it to occur
Glaze is freezing rain it happens when becomes super
cold
Hail begins as little ice balls that get bigger when super
cold water droplet stick to it as it falls to the surface