The cloud family made up of cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus.
What are High Clouds?
The state of water droplets in a liquid form below zero degrees Celsius.
What is supercooled?
Clouds with their bases at or very near the ground.
What is fog?
The diameter of a Cloud Droplet.
What is less than 20 micrometers?
Meteorology term that means drops of water that fall from a cloud and have a diameter of at least .5mm.
What is rain?
Where the base of clouds of vertical development forms.
What is the LCL (Lifting Condensation Level)?
One of the three basic cloud forms is a sheet or layer that covers much or all of the sky.
What is stratus?
Fog created over a lake...What process leads to the formation of fog over a lake?
What is evaporative cooling?
The temperature at which pure water suspended in air freezes.
What is -40 degrees Celsius?
Formed at very low temperatures and comprises individual six-sided ice crystals.
What is snow?
Clouds known for producing rain showers and thunderstorms.
What is a cumulonimbus?
One of the three basic cloud forms and high cloud types, thin, delicate, ice-crystal clouds often appear as veil-like patches or thin, wispy fibers.
What is cirrus?
The process involves the movement of air over a cold surface.
What is radiation cooling?
When colliding, raindrops stick together.
What is Coalescence?
Where hail is produced.
What is Cumulonimbus clouds?
The family at which Nimbostratus clouds usually exist.
What are low clouds?
A theory of raindrop formation in warm clouds.
What is the collision-coalescence process?
The condition where an air mass contains all the water it can.
What is saturation?
The temperature at which snowflakes usually melt before reaching the ground.
The temperature at which pure water suspended in air freezes.
What is 4 degrees Celsius?
What is -40 degrees Celsius?
What is the key concept that facilitates the Bergeron Process?
What is: "it is easier" for water vapor to deposit (deposition) directly into ice crystals than into water droplets?
The three basic types of clouds.
What is cirrus, cumulus, and stratus?
A theory that relates precipitation formation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water.
What is Bergeron Process?
The process that leads to most types of fog.
What is radiation cooling?
The mechanism that forms raindrops.
What is the collision-coalescence process?