1. Moisture, Clouds and
precipitation

2. Adiabatic Temperature
Changing and Expansion and
Cooling.
• Temperature changes happen
even though heat is not added or
subtracted is adiabatic
temperature.
• The first type of adiabatic is dry
adiabatic, this is the cooling or
heating of unsaturated air
• The second type is wet
adiabatic, this is the cooling of
saturated air and it moves slower
than dry adiabatic.
• http://strangepaths.com/en/

3. Orographic Lifting
• This occurs when mountains act
as barriers to air flow, forcing the
air to ascend.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:
Orographic_lifting_of_the_air_-
_NOAA.jpg

4. Frontal Wedging!!!!
• The area between warm and cold
air is a front.
• A process that occurs at a front,
dense air act like a road block.
• Less dense air rises.
• http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/
~tbw/wc.notes/4.moisture.atm.st
ability/frontal_wedging.htm

5. Convergence
• The up rising of air that results
from the air in the lower
atmosphere flowing together is
Convergence
• warm days, air flows from the
ocean to the land along both
coast of Florida
• commons.wikimedia.org

6. Localized Convective
Lifting
• Unequal heating of earths
surface warms a section of air
that lowers the air density
• http://www.richhoffmanclass.co
m/chapter4.html

7. Stability (Density Differnces
& Syability and DAILY
Weather
• Stable air stays in its position,
when unstable air rises.
• Temperatures Conversion
happens when air increases with
height.
• http://ocw.usu.edu/Forest__Rang
e__and_Wildlife_Sciences/Wildla
nd_Fire_Management_and_Plann
ing/Unit_7__Atmospheric_Stabilit
y_and_Instability_1.html

8. Condensation
• The air must be fully saturated to
form any kind of condensation.
• Types of condensation is weather
dew, fog, or clouds.
• http://www.kidsgeo.com/geograp
hy-for-kids/0107-
condensation.php

9. Types of clouds
• Clouds are described by their
height and formed.
• There are different types of
clouds
• Cirrus , Cumulus and Stratus.
• http://www.weatherquestions.co
m/What_kinds_of_clouds_are_th
ere.htm

10. High Clouds
• High clouds are often made up of
ice crystals, they are thin and
white as well.
• They are formed by low
tempertaures, small amount of
water vapor up high.
• http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/cloud
s3.htm

11. Middle Clouds
• Clouds appear to 2000-
6000meters from ground.
• These Clouds put a blanket like
across the sky that looks whiteish
grey.
• http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/fl
tenv3.htm

12. Low Clouds
• Low clouds cover a lot of the sky,
kinda like fog.
• Low Clouds form from air rising
up.
• Nimbostratus,Stratocumulus and
stratus clouds are all types of low
clouds.
• http://www.atmos.illinois.edu/ea
rths_atmosphere/clouds.html

13. Clouds of Vertical
Development.
• Not all clouds fit in high low or
middle clouds.
• Some clouds can form under the
proper circumstance.
• http://www.free-online-private-
pilot-ground-
school.com/Aviation-Weather-
Principles.html

14. Fog
• There is nothing different from a
fog and a cloud, the only
difference is the method and
place of formation.
• Fog is formed by radiation
cooling.
• Fog is clouds that touch to the
ground.
• http://www.naturalhazards.org/h
azards/fog/index.html

15. Cold Cloud
Precipitation(Bergeron
process)
• Bergeron Process is a theory
that relates the formation of
precipitation to supercooled
clouds, Freezing nuclei
• Water is supercooled when it
is below 0°C
• http://www.richhoffmanclass.
com/chapter5.html

16. Warm Cloud Precipitation
(collision-coalescence
process)
• Supersaturated is with ice is greater
than 100 percent relative humidity.
• Rain drop formation in warm clouds
is a theory called Colluision-
coalescence.
• https://www.meted.ucar.edu/sign_i
n.php?go_back_to=http%253A%252
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17. Rain & Snow.
• Drops of water that fall from the
sky is called rain.
• When the temperature gets really
cold the rain froze to a 6-sided ice
crystal called snowflakes.
http://zahiym5tlc.edublogs.org/

18. Sleet, Glaze and Hail
• Clear particles that fall from the
sky is sleet.
• Glaze is when frozen rain falls to
the ground.
• Hailstorms begin as ice pallets
falling from the sky.
• http://www.kidsgeo.com/geograp
hy-for-kids/0118-freezing-
rain.php