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CloudFormationBy Quincy Rogers
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Orogrophic Lifting
• An easier way to explain this would be the windward and leeward side of mountain. One side gets all the precipitation, and the other side gets nothing.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Climate-Moderator-Water-as-a.html
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Fronts
• A boundary between colliding masses of warm and cold air.
• Less dense air rises
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Convergence
• When air rises because the air under it flows together
http://www.ec.gc.ca/ouragans-hurricanes/AB062B74-8C14-4A80-BC38-E4F3F9168B55/1.jpg
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Localized Lifting
• When un-equal heating warms up one pocket of air more than the others , making that air less dense
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Stableness
• Air that sits still • Stable air stays in one place while
unstable air rises and moves around
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Condensation
• For condensation to happen, there needs to a surface
• The air needs to be saturated• When this happens in he air we call
clouds
http://aumusiclibrary.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/rain.jpg
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Cloud types and Precipitation
• Cirrus- high up, white, and are thin. Look like wispy feathery cloudy
• Cumulus- big fluffy clouds that have a flat bottom
• Stratus- cover much and often most of the sky. No distinctive individual clouds
http://images.usatoday.com/weather/photos/clouds/cirrus2.jpg
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Fog
• A cloud that is so heavy it fell to the ground
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Precipitation
• For precipitation to form, the water vapor in the air must get bigger by one million times
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Bergeron Process
• Theory that describes the precipitation of cold clouds
• Water below 0C is said to be super cooled
• Water in this stage will automatically freeze with contact
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bergeron_process.svg/220px-Bergeron_process.svg.png
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Collision Coalescence
• When air is super saturated with ice• Theory that describes the formation
of raindrops
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High Clouds
• Bases reside between 16000 and 45000 feet
• Because of the altitude they are mainly composed of ice crystals
• Clouds in the region would be cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus
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Middle Clouds
• Bases found at 6,500 to 23,000 feet• Main clouds here are altostratus, alto
nimbus, and nimbostratus clouds• Their height depends on the region
they form
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Low Clouds
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Rain and Snow
• Forms when water droplets in clouds size up one million times
• Depending on the weather in the region, the water droplets may freeze into crystals and become snow
http://zahiym5tlc.edublogs.org/files/2010/01/rain-and-snow1.jpg
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Sleet
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Glaze
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Hail