1. Chapter 4 Moisture and Atmospheric Stability The Atmosphere 10e
Lutgens & Tarbuck Power Point by Michael C. LoPresto

2. Steam Fog over a Lake

3. The Hydrologic Cycle

4. Water’s Changes of State

5. Ice

6. Water

7. Condensation of Water Vapor
Generates Fog

8. Frost on a Window Pane

9. Humidity
Is the
Content of
Water Vapor
in the Air

10. Relationship
between
Vapor Pressure
and
Saturation

11. Saturation
Vapor Pressure
Varies with
Temperature

12. Hot desert air
with low
relative humidity
will actually
have a higher
water vapor-content
than frigid air
with high

13. Relative Humidity
Changes with Added Moisture

14. Relative Humidity
Changes with Temperature

15. Daily Changes in Relative Humidity with Temperature

16. Cold
Drinking-glasses
Chill
Surrounding
Air
to the Dew-Point
Condensation on Cold Drinking-glasses

18. Dew Point Temperatures

20. Sling
Psychrometer

21. Adiabatic Temperature Changes

22. Dry and Wet Adiabatic Rates

23. Lifting Processes
Orographic

24. Heavy Precipitation in Mountains
Snow Pack in the Rocky Mountains

25. Death Valley
Rain Shadow Desert

26. Frontal Wedging

27. Convergence

28. Convergence
over
Southern Florida

29. Wetter
Windward
Locations
and Leeward
Rain Shadows

30. Convection

31. As long as
air
in a
balloon is
hotter
than the
surrounding air,
it will rise

32. Adiabatic
Cooling

33. Atmospheric Stability
Absolute Stability

34. Absolute Instability

35. Conditional Stability

36. An Unstable Atmosphere

37. Chapter 4
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