This document discusses various types of clouds and precipitation. It explains processes like adiabatic temperature changes, orographic and frontal lifting that cause clouds to form. The document categorizes clouds by height as high, middle and low clouds. It also discusses different types of precipitation like rain, snow, sleet and hail. The key roles of condensation and freezing in the formation of clouds and precipitation are outlined.

1. Clouds And Precipitation
By Jason Batcsics
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2. Adiabatic Temperature Changes and
Expansion and cooling
• Adiabatic means when air is cooling or heating
its not losing energy.
• Much of the adiabatic air is saturated
• And wet adiabatic air is a lot slower than dry
adiabatic air

3. Orographic lifting
• Is basically when wind is being blocked by
something.
• It can be blocked by a mountain or houses
• it can be blocked by cars, boats, planes, and
helicopters.

4. Frontal wedging
• Is a big of meeting of warm air and cool air
colliding together.
• This also works when riding in a hot air
balloon with hot air and cool air.
• And dense air is like a wall over warm air and
the dense air increases more.

5. convergence
• When air atmosphere flows together
• It also means when the keeps getting lifted up
higher into the atmosphere
• Also when more oxygen is made during that
time.

6. Localized convective lifting
• Can happen when earth heating is not the
same as the rest
• It brings does a little or big pocket of air
• Which lowers the air pockets density

7. stability
• Stable air stays in its original position
• But the unstable air usually rises
• The stable air conditions air temperature
usually rises in height.

8. condensation
• Condensation happens when the air above
ground form into tiny particles of water called
condensation nuclei
• Water vapor particles become water.
• Condensation usually occurs on glass like cups
and windows.

9. Types of clouds
• The cirrus clouds are high white and thin they
look like white sheets
• Cumulus are big puffy clouds that usually
come during a storm
• Stratus clouds look like a bunch of cirrus
clouds layers of cirrus clouds

10. High clouds
• The highest clouds would be the cirrus clouds
the thin clouds
• They look like wispy clouds the also look
extended and fetherey
• They also look like sheets and just laying
across the sky

11. Middle clouds
• Would be the cumulus clouds they very big
puffy marshmallow clouds
• The look like a volcano exploded or a tower of
clouds
• They usually have flat bases cause of their
gigantic size

12. Low clouds
• would be the stratus clouds which are the
layer like clouds or sheet like clouds.
• There are no individual stratus clouds
• Another thing of low clouds could possibly be
fog possibly

13. Clouds of vertical development
• Some don’t fit in the three height categories
• All the height categories are related to one
another
• And the height categories can get very messed
up from that

14. fog
• Fog mostly forms over ponds lakes and
streams or any bodies of water
• Fog can also form over wet fields and damp
plains or over wet grass.
• Fog can form on roads or after its stopped
raining it usually comes in the mourning.

15. Cold cloud precipitation
• Another name for this is called the Bergeron
process
• When liquid is at 0 degrees Celsius its called
super cooled.
• When its freezes it has freezing nuclei

16. Warm cloud precipitation
• When air is saturated up to a hundred degrees
or higher
• When the air is very saturated its also called
super saturated
• Another name is also super coalescence

17. Rain and snow
• Rain is the main type of all precipitation cause
all precipitation has water
• Snow might be the second most important
type of precipitation which is frozen water
• All types of precipitation have water like snow
and rain

18. Sleet, glaze and hail
• Sleet is really wet snow and all slushy and is
also mixed dirt and other things it goes into
• Glaze is frozen that falls from the sky and is
like little hail
• Hail is small ice pellets that grow while falling
to the earth and usually comes during a storm