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Air Compression and Expansion
Processes that Lift Air
Stability
Condensation
Random Facts
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Adiabatic temperature changes are...
What is temperature that isn't added or subtracted?
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What are the 4 processes that lift air...
What is Orographic Lifting, Frontal Wedging, Convergence, and Localized convective Lifting?
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The most stable condition is when air temperature increases with height is...
What is temperature inversion?
100
When water vapor changes into a liquid...
What is condensation?
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What are the 4 important words in the section "Processes that lift air"
What is orographic lifting, frontal wedging, convergence, and localized convective lifting?
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When air is (blank) its compressed.
What is warmed?
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What occurs when mountains act as barriers...
What is orographic lifting?
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Temperature inversions frequently happen on...
What is clear nights?
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What are some forms of condensation
What is dew, fog and clouds?
200
What is the most stable condition of air
What is temperature inversion?
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What are the 2 rates of cooling...
What is dry adiabatic rate and wet adiabatic rate?
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The cooler denser air acts as a barrier over the warmer less dense air that rises
What is frontal wedging?
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Clouds that have the lifting of unstable air can cause...
What is thunderstorms and tornadoes?
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For any of these forms to occur what must happen...
What is the air must be saturated?
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> (air mass coming together) <
What is convergence?
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What forms of condensation require saturated air to develop...
What is dew, fog and clouds?
400
2 air masses move towards each other and rise up and may produce clouds
What is convergence?
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This remains in its original position...
What is stable air?
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When condensation occurs in the air above the ground, tiny bits of matter serve as a surface for water vapor condensation
What is Condensation Nuclei?
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The wet adiabatic rate varies from...
What is 5-9 degrees Celsius per 100 meters?
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When warm parcels of air rise above the condensation level clouds form and can cause...
What is mid-afternoon rain showers?
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This tends to rise...
What is unstable air?
500
What is a good source for condensation nuclei
What is ocean salt?