Clouds & Precipitation Notes/Vocabulary How do clouds form? when warm air & cold air meet, cold air pushes up the warm air and a cloud can form when air rises and cools, the water vapor in the air condenses into tiny water droplets and forms a cloud If the temperature ...
This leads us to how clouds dissipate, or more accurately, evolve. Usually, clouds just change from one type to another. Using the previous example, the front where both masses meet could cause drifting cumulus clouds to change into a line of nimbostratus clouds (delivering precipitation). As ...
Why do aircraft take off and land into the wind? What is the cause of atmospheric pressure? Why does air rise at the equator? How do clouds and precipitation in the atmosphere develop? Please describe the structure of a hurricane, and how they work. Include a discussion of how energy is...
Stratus(meaning "layer"): short and spread across great distances Cirrus(meaning "curl of hair"): wispy and thin Nimbus(meaning "rain" or "rainy cloud"): likely to bring precipitation These clouds don't look much like each other, but they all form through the same basic steps. In this ...
Precipitation is moisture falling to the ground in the form of rain, snow or ice. Mountains have two major effects called the orographic effect, which causes clouds and precipitation to form on one side of the mountain, and the rain shadow effect, which is a drier area on the opposite side...
Snow is a type of precipitation formed way up in the clouds where it becomes cold enough to freeze the water vapor present there. In an extremely unusual phenomenon known as diamond dust, however, snow can also be formed out of a clear sky. ...
Soon, there is so much moisture in the atmosphere in the form of water-bearing clouds, far more than the air in that region can take. Here, we say there is saturation, and the water/ice crystals are ready to come down in the form of precipitation....
How high are nimbostratus clouds? What are storm clouds called? In what part of the water cycle do clouds form? What are the two common types of nimbostratus clouds? Where do clouds form in the atmosphere? Do all clouds produce precipitation?
an associate researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. When the wind hits the earth, it breaks up the layer of dust on the ground and lifts the light, tiny dust particles into the air. Eventually, the dust and wind combine to form huge clouds that ro...
As climate change stokes larger and more intense wildfires, firestorms are likely to become more common. Here’s why they occur and what makes them so dangerous.