Equation of State (a.k.a. the “Ideal Gas Law”)

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Equation of State (a.k.a. the “Ideal Gas Law”) temperature (K) pressure (N m-2) density (kg m-3) “gas constant” (J K-1 kg-1) Direct relationship between density and pressure Inverse relationship between density and temperature Direct relationship between temperature and pressure

Pressure and Density Gravity holds most of the air close to the ground The weight of the overlying air is the pressure at any point

Hydrostatic Balance What keeps air from always moving downwards due to gravity? A balance between gravity and the pressure gradient force. DP/ Dz = rg The “pressure gradient force?” Pushes from high to low pressure. DP/ Dz rg

Buoyancy An air parcel rises in the atmosphere when its density is less than its surroundings Let renv be the density of the environment. From the Ideal Gas Law renv = P/RTenv Let rparcel be the density of an air parcel. Then rparcel = P/RTparcel Since both the parcel and the environment at the same height are at the same pressure when Tparcel > Tenv rparcel < renv (positive buoyancy) when Tparcel < Tenv rparcel > renv (negative buoyancy)

Stable and Unstable Equilibria AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Stable and Unstable Equilibria Conditionally Stable Stable Unstable Neutral Stable: when perturbed, system accelerates back toward equilibrium state Unstable: when perturbed, system accelerates away from equilibrium state ATS CSU Scott Denning

Stability in the atmosphere AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Stability in the atmosphere Unstable Neutral Stable An Initial Perturbation If an air parcel is displaced from its original height it can: Return to its original height - Stable Accelerate upward because it is buoyant - Unstable Stay at the place to which it was displaced - Neutral ATS CSU Scott Denning

Why is stability important? Vertical motions in the atmosphere are a critical part of energy transport and strongly influence the hydrologic cycle Without vertical motion, there would be no precipitation, no mixing of pollutants away from ground level - weather as we know it would simply not exist! There are two types of vertical motion: forced motion such as forcing air up over a hill, over colder air, or from horizontal convergence buoyant motion in which the air rises because it is less dense than its surroundings

Trading Height for Heat (cont’d) Suppose a parcel exchanges no energy with its surroundings … we call this state adiabatic, meaning, “not gaining or losing energy” “Dry lapse rate”

Dry Lapse Rate Warming and Cooling due to changing pressure 10 degrees C per kilometer Warming and Cooling due to changing pressure

Stability and the Dry Lapse Rate A rising air parcel cools according to the dry lapse rate (10 C per km) If rising, cooling air is: warmer than surrounding air it is less dense and buoyancy accelerates the parcel upward … UNSTABLE! colder than surrounding air it is more dense and buoyancy opposes (slows) the rising motion … STABLE!

Unstable Atmosphere The atmosphere is unstable if the actual lapse rate exceeds the dry lapse rate (air cools more than 10 C/km) This situation is rare in nature (not long-lived) Usually results from surface heating and is confined to a shallow layer near the surface Vertical mixing eliminates it Mixing results in a dry lapse rate in the mixed layer, unless condensation (cloud formation) occurs

The atmosphere is stable if the actual lapse rate is less than the dry lapse rate (air cools less than 10 C/km) This situation is common in nature (happens most calm nights, esp in winter) Usually results from surface cooling and is confined to a shallow layer near the surface Vertical mixing or surface heating eliminates it Stable Atmosphere

Water Vapor, Liquid Water, and Air AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Water Vapor, Liquid Water, and Air Water molecules make phase transitions When vapor and liquid are in equilibrium, the air is “saturated” Saturation vapor pressure es depends only on temperature Dewpoint temperature Td depends only on vapor pressure e ATS CSU Scott Denning

Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate Warming and cooling due to both changes in pressure and latent heat release Rising air with condensing water cools more slowly with height than dry air ATS CSU Scott Denning

Conditionally unstable air If the environmental lapse rate falls between the moist and dry lapse rates: The atmosphere is unstable for saturated air parcels but stable for dry air parcels This situation is termed conditionally unstable This is the most typical situation in the troposphere Conditionally unstable air

Condensation Phase transformation of water vapor to liquid water Water does not easily condense without a surface present Vegetation, soil, buildings provide surface for dew and frost formation Particles act as sites for cloud and fog drop formation

Cloud and fog drop formation If the air temperature cools below the dew point (RH > 100%), water vapor will tend to condense and form cloud/fog drops Drop formation occurs on particles known as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) The most effective CCN are water soluble Without particles clouds would not form in the atmosphere! RH of several hundred percent required for pure water drop formation

Cloud Droplets are Tiny!

Very Small Drops Evaporate! Surface of small drops are strongly curved Stronger curvature produces a higher esat Very high RH required for equilibrium with small drops ~300% RH for a 0.1 µm pure water drop If small drops evaporate, how can we ever get large drops?!

Nucleation of Cloud Droplets Formation of a pure water drop without a condensation nucleus is termed “homogeneous nucleation” Random collision of water vapor molecules can form a small drop embryo Collision likelihood limits maximum embryo size to < 0.01 µm esat for embryo is several hundred percent Embryo evaporates since environmental RH < 100.5%

Effects of Dissolved Stuff Condensation of water on soluble CCN dissolves particle Water actually condenses on many atmospheric salt particles at RH ~70% Some solute particles will be present at drop surface Displace water molecules Reduce likelihood of water molecules escaping to vapor Reduce esat from value for pure water drop Water molecule Solute molecule

Steps in Cloud/Fog Formation Air parcel cools causing RH to increase Radiative cooling at surface (fog) Expansion in rising parcel (cloud) CCN (tenths of µm) take up water vapor as RH increases Depends on particle size and composition IF RH exceeds critical value, drops are activated and grow readily into cloud drops (10’s of µm)

Cloud Condensation Nuclei Not all atmospheric particles are cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) Good CCN are hygroscopic (“like” water, in a chemical sense) Many hygroscopic salt and acid particles are found in the atmosphere Natural CCN Sea salt particles (NaCl) Particles produced from biogenic sulfur emissions Products of vegetation burning CCN from human activity Pollutants from fossil fuel combustion react in the atmosphere to form acids and salts

Fair weather cumulus cloud development AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Fair weather cumulus cloud development Buoyant thermals due to surface heating They cool at dry adiabatic lapse rate (conserve ) Cloud forms when T = Td (RH ~ 100%) Sinking air between cloud elements Rising is strongly suppressed at base of subsidence inversion produced from sinking motion associated with high pressure system ATS CSU Scott Denning

Fair weather cumulus cloud development schematic AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Fair weather cumulus cloud development schematic ATS CSU Scott Denning

What conditions support taller cumulus development ? AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 What conditions support taller cumulus development ? A less stable atmospheric (steeper lapse rate) profile permits greater vertical motion Lots of low-level moisture permits latent heating to warm parcel, accelerating it upward ATS CSU Scott Denning

AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 ATS CSU Scott Denning

Precipitation Formation AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Precipitation Formation How can precipitation form from tiny cloud drops? Warm rain process The Bergeron (ice crystal) process Ice multiplication How many 20 µm cloud drops does it take to make a 2000 µm rain drop? V = 4/3pr3 = pd3/6 (2000/20) 3 = 1,000,000 ATS CSU Scott Denning

Rain formation in warm clouds (no ice) AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 In a supersaturated environment, activated cloud drops grow by water vapor condensation It takes many hours for the cloud drop to approach rain drop size Collisions between cloud drops can produce large rain drops much faster through coalescence Collisions occur in part due to different settling rates of large and small drops Not all collisions result in coalescence Rain formation favored by Wide range of drop sizes Thick cloud Fast updrafts 4/15/2017 Rain formation in warm clouds (no ice) ATS CSU Scott Denning

Rain formation in warm clouds AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Rain formation in warm clouds Capture of a cloud/rain drop in a cloud updraft can give it more time to grow The drop falls at a fixed speed relative to the air, not the ground Large drops fall faster ATS CSU Scott Denning

Ice crystal growth by vapor deposition (Bergeron process) AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Ice binds water molecules more tightly than liquid water For temperatures less than 0ºC, the saturation vapor pressure over ice is less than the saturation vapor pressure over super-cooled water This leads to evaporation of water from supercooled cloud drops and deposition onto ice crystals ATS CSU Scott Denning

Ice crystal growth by accretion AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Ice crystal growth by accretion Ice crystals fall faster than cloud drops Crystal/drop collisions allow ice crystals to capture cloud drops The supercooled drops freeze upon contact with the ice crystal This process is known as accretion or riming Extreme crystal riming leads to the formation of Graupel Hail ATS CSU Scott Denning

Ice Crystal Processes in Cold Clouds Outside deepest tropics most precipitation is formed via ice crystal growth Supercooled cloud drops and ice crystals coexist for –40º < T < 0º C Lack of freezing nuclei to “glaciate” drops Ice crystals can grow by Water vapor deposition Capture of cloud drops (accretion/riming) Aggregation

Precipitation in cold clouds AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Precipitation in cold clouds Low liquid water content promotes diffusion/deposition growth of large crystals High liquid water content promotes riming and formation of graupel/hail If the sub-cloud layer is warm, snow or graupel may melt into raindrops before reaching the surface (typical process for summer rain in Colorado) ATS CSU Scott Denning

AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 Hail 4/15/2017 Hail can form in clouds with High supercooled liquid water content Very strong updrafts decoupled from downdrafts Hailstones typically make 2-3 trips up through cloud Opaque and clear ice layers form Opaque represents rapid freezing of accreted drops Clear represents slower freezing during higher water accretion rates Layering tells about hailstone history The largest hailstone ever recovered in the United States, a seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) wide chunk of ice almost as large as a soccer ball. It was found in Aurora, Nebraska on June 22, 2003. The hailstone lost nearly half of its mass upon landing on the rain gutter of a house ATS CSU Scott Denning

Lifecycle of a Simple Thunderstorm AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Lifecycle of a Simple Thunderstorm Updraft Glaciation Rain shaft Anvil Collapse Cirrus “debris” ATS CSU Scott Denning

stratosphere free troposphere boundary layer vapor + ice water vapor liquid + vapor liquid + vapor + ice very dry overshooting top anvil moist updrafts dry air entrainment

AT606 Intro to Climate Fall 2006 4/15/2017 Organized Squall Line Decoupling of updraft and downdraft due to “shear” (vertical change in horizontal wind) Propagation by initiation of new convective cells along gust front at leading edge of cold pool ATS CSU Scott Denning

Squall Line Structure Sequence at surface: (1) strong wind gust under rain-free cloud; (2) heavy rain; (3) tailing off to light rain

Squall Line 5 June 2008

Supercell Thunderstorms

Supercell Thunderstorms Highly-organized single-cell storms persisting for hours, responsible for nearly all tornados and damaging hail Conditions: Very unstable, moist environment Winds turn clockwise with height (e.g., from south at surface, from west aloft) Characteristics: Storm-scale rotation Huge updrafts to 100 mph Wall clouds, tornados, violent downdrafts and surface gusts

Tornados Small but intense surface vortices produced by supercell storms Surface winds can be > 250 mph Average of 1000 reported per year in USA, with 80 killed and 1500 injured

How Tornados Form: pre-existing vorticity is tilted and then stretched in a supercell thunderstorm updraft Vortex tube is stretched in rotating updraft and intensifies Surface friction produces “roll vortices” Vortex is entrained into updraft and tilted into vertical

US Tornado Occurrence Roughly 1000 tornados each year in US Many more in US than anywhere else in the world! Trends in reporting, but probably not trends in actual occurrence

“Tornado Alley”