1. The document discusses various meteorological and atmospheric phenomena including adiabatic temperature changes, lifting mechanisms, fronts, thermals, stability, condensation, cloud types from cirrus to cumulonimbus, precipitation types from rain to hail, and the collision-coalescence process of raindrop formation. 2. It provides descriptions and examples of each topic in multiple short paragraphs with one or two sentences each. 3. The document appears to be a study guide or notes for a class on weather and climate science covering many fundamental concepts and processes.

2. 1. Result when air
compressed or allowed to
expand
2. Expand= cool, and
compressed= warm

3. 1. Mountains acting as
barriers to the flow
of air, forcing air to
ascend
2. Happens a lot in
rainier location

4. 1. It produces a front
2. It causes air to rise

5. 1. Is whenever air in the
lower atmosphere
flows together. Lifting
results
2. Cannot go down, must
go up

6. 1. Is the process that produces rising thermals
2. Good for hang gliding

7. 1. Air that
resists
vertical
movement
2. Good for
hot air
balloons

8. 1. When a gas
becomes a liquid
2. A good example is
dew and water
outside of a cold cup

9. 1. Altocumulus, a
ltostratus, cirro
cumulus, cirros
tratus, cirrus, c
umulonimbus,
cumulus, nimb
ostratus, strato
cumulus, and
stratus

10. 1. Cirrus, Cirrocumul
us, Cirrostratus
2. Made out of ice
crystals and are
about 6000
meters above sea
level

11. 1. Altocumulus
, Altostratus
2. Drizzle or
light snow
comes from
these clouds
and are
about 4000
meters high

12. 1. Stratus, Str
atocumulu
s, Nimbost
ratus
2. Make
precipitati
on and are
about 2000
meters
high

13. 1. Cumulus and
Cumulonimbus
2. Cumulonimbus
produces
thunderstorms
and both extend
upwards

14. 1. Can be caused by cooling of evaporation
2. Can produce on land and on water

15. 1. Droplets under
0C and above -
40C are called
super cooled
2. Air that is
100% relative
humidity is
called
supersaturated

16. 1. Mechanism that
forms raindrops
is the collision-
coalescence
process
2. Happens a lot in
the tropics like
rainforests

17. 1. Rain is considered drops
of water that is at least
0.5 mm from a cloud
2. Snow is rain that hasn’t
melted yet and happens
when the surface is -5C

18. 1. Sleet is small particles of clear to translucent
ice
2. Glaze is freezing rain and Hail is produced by
cumulonimbus clouds and is ice

20. SLIDES:
1- http://www.sawater.com.au/SAWater/Education/OurWaterSystems/The+Water+Cycle.htm
2- http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0070-adiabatic-temperature-changes.php
3- http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.LiftingMechanisms
4- http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw/wc.notes/4.moisture.atm.stability/frontal_wedging.htm
5- http://www.explainingthefuture.com/nic.html
6- http://www.richhoffmanclass.com/chapter4.html
7- http://www.johnsboatstuff.com/Articles/estimati.htm
8- http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/kes00898/e-port/condensation%20page%20for%20unit.html
9- http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/nonpwdpubs/young_naturalist/earth_sciences/clouds/
10- http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html
11- http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html
12- http://www.weathervortex.com/cloud-types.htm
13- http://www.richhoffmanclass.com/chapter5.html
14- http://helicopterblog.com/?p=276
15- http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/category/long-range-thoughts/
16- http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/w/warm_rain.asp
17- http://depositphotos.com/5213558/stock-photo-Heavy-cloud-with-rain-and-snow..html
18- http://climate.met.psu.edu/features/Hail/PEMA_hail.php