Ch. 18: “Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation”

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Ch. 18: “Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation” 18.3: “Cloud Types and Precipitation”

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Types of Clouds 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  High Clouds • Cirrus clouds are high, white, and thin. • Cirrostratus clouds are flat layers of clouds. • Cirrocumulus clouds consist of fluffy masses.  Middle Clouds • Altocumulus clouds are composed of rounded masses that differ from cirrocumulus clouds in that altocumulus clouds are larger and denser. • Altostratus clouds create a uniform white to gray sheet covering the sky with the sun or moon visible as a bright spot.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Types of Clouds 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Low Clouds • Stratus clouds are best described as sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky. • Stratocumulus clouds have a scalloped bottom that appears as long parallel rolls or broken rounded patches. • Nimbostratus clouds are the main precipitation makers.

Cloud Classification Makes no sense without caption in book

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Types of Clouds 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Clouds of Vertical Development • Some clouds do not fit into any one of the three height categories mentioned. Such clouds have their bases in the low height range but often extend upward into the middle or high altitudes.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Fog 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Fog is defined as a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.  Fog Caused by Cooling • As the air cools, it becomes denser and drains into low areas such as river valleys, where thick fog accumulations may occur.  Fog Caused by Evaporation • When cool air moves over warm water, enough moisture may evaporate from the water surface to produce saturation.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation How Precipitation Forms 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  For precipitation to form, cloud droplets must grow in volume by roughly one million times.  Cold Cloud Precipitation • The Bergeron process is a theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water.

The Bergeron Process Makes no sense without caption in book

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation How Precipitation Forms 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Cold Cloud Precipitation • Supercooled water is the condition of water droplets that remain in the liquid state at temperatures well below 0oC. • Supersaturated air is the condition of air that is more concentrated than is normally possible under given temperature and pressure conditions.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation How Precipitation Forms 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Warm Cloud Precipitation • The collision-coalescence process is a theory of raindrop formation in warm clouds (above 0oC) in which large cloud droplets collide and join together with smaller droplets to form a raindrop.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Forms of Precipitation 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  The type of precipitation that reaches Earth’s surface depends on the temperature profile in the lower few kilometers of the atmosphere.  Rain and Snow • In meteorology, the term rain means drops of water that fall from a cloud and have a diameter of at least 0.5 mm. • At very low temperatures (when the moisture content of air is low) light fluffy snow made up of individual six-sided ice crystals forms.

18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation Forms of Precipitation 18.3 Cloud Types and Precipitation  Rain and Snow • Sleet is the fall of clear-to-translucent ice. • Hail is produced in cumulonimbus clouds. • Hailstones begin as small ice pellets that grow by collecting supercooled water droplets as they fall through a cloud. Largest recorded hailstone Weighed 766 grams Fell over Kansas in 1970