The document discusses various meteorological concepts including adiabatic temperature changes, orographic lifting, frontal wedging, convergence, localized convection lifting, stability, condensation, cloud types, fog formation, precipitation processes, and types of precipitation. It provides definitions and brief explanations of these terms and concepts.
2. Adiabatic temperature changes
and expansion and cooling
Air expand-it cools and air compressed-it warms.
Rate of adiabatic cooling or heating in unsaturated air is
the dry adiabatic rate.
When it is saturated air its called wet adiabatic rate and
that dry's slower then the dry adiabatic.
link:
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/~wintelsw/MET1010LOL/chapter
06/
6. Localized
convection lifting
•Lifting occurs when unequal
heating of earths surface
•It warms a pocket or air more
then the surrounding air
•Lowering the pocket of air
density
Link
http://www.richhoffmanclass.com/chapter4
.html
7. Stability (density differences and
stability and daily weather
facts
http://www.vietnamonline.com/destin
ation/hanoi/weather-by-
month/hanoi-weather-in-august.html
Tend to remain the original
position when unstable air
rises
Its most stable condition Is
when air temp. increase
When that happens it is
called temperature inversion
10. High clouds
fact
http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/c
louds3.htm
Three family clouds make up
the high clouds cirrus and
cirrostratus and cirrocumulus
All high clouds are thin and
white and are often made up
of ice crystals
They are not considered
precipitation makers
13. Clouds of vertical development
facts
http://www.free-online-private-pilot-
ground-school.com/Aviation-Weather-
Principles.html
Some of the clouds do not fit
into the height categories
They have their bases
The clouds are related to each
other
14. Fog (by cooling and by
evaporation)
facts http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2006/03/ad
vection-fog-in-new-hampshire.html
Physically there is no
difference between fog and a
clound
Fog can form on cool clear
and calm nights
When cool air moves across
warm water it may evaporate
16. Warm cloud
Fact http://www.frangardino.com/clouds/index.
html
Air saturated with respect to
water it is super saturated
with respect to ice
Collision coalescence is a
theory of raindrop formation
in warm clouds
Large clouds collide and join
together with smalle droplets
to form raindroplets
17. Rain and snow
Facts http://fineartamerica.com/featured/la
ke-rain-and-snow-darryl-kravitz.html
Light fluffy snow makes
individual 6 sided crystals
Temps warmer then -5 ice
crystals go into large clumps
Snowfalls of the snowflakes
are heavy ,are high moisture
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18. Sleet glaze and hail
facts
http://scienceray.com/earth-
sciences/the-mysteries-of-earth-
science-rain-snow-and-hail/
Sleet-small particles of clear
to translucent
Glaze-also knew as freezing
rain it happens when super
cooled raindrops
Hail- produce cumulonimbus
cloud hailstones are small ice
pellets but they get larger s
they collect super cooled
water cooled