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What is Sublimation?
What Is: The process where a substance transitions directly from a solid to a gas by passing the liquid phase.
What is the main difference between the Wet Adiabatic and Dry Adiabatic rates?
What Is: At dry adiabatic rate, the air is unsaturated, Wet Adiabatic rate the air is saturated.
What are Stable Air Characteristics?
What Is: Resistance to vertical movement, leading to calm conditions, flat forming clouds, and limited visibility due to trapped pollutants and haze.
What is Deposition?
What Is: The process where sediments are transported by wind, water, ice, or gravity and are laid down or settled in a new location.
What is Orographic Lifting?
What Is: It occurs when air is forced to rise over a mountain or other elevated terrain leading to cooling and potential precipitation on the windward side and a rain effect on the leeward side.
What are Unstable Air Characteristics?
What Is: A condition where a parcel of air, when lifted, becomes warmer and lighter than the surrounding air, leading to weather events such as storms or heavy rainfall.
What is Condensation?
What Is: The process where water vapor in the atmosphere cools and transforms into liquid water, forming clouds, dew, or fog.
What is Frontal Wedging?
What Is: The process where a cold, denser, air mass moves upward, creating a wedge-shaped boundary between them, often leading to a cloud formation precipitation.
What is the Warm Cloud Process?
What Is: Soluble or hydrophilic clouds take on water as humidity and increase in size.
What is the Dry Adiabatic Rate?
What Is: The rate at which the temperature of an unsaturated air parcel decreases as it rises in the atmosphere without any heat exchange in the environment.
What is Convergence?
What Is: The collision of 2 or more tectonic plates, where one plate may slide beneath another, causing a process called subduction, usually results in an earthquake.
What is the Cold cloud process (Bergeron)?
What Is: Clouds form at altitudes where the temperatures are below the freezing point.
What is the Wet Adiabatic Rate?
What Is: The rate at which saturated air parcels cool as they rise in the atmosphere is typically around 6 degrees Celsius per 1,000m due to the release of latent heat during condensation.
What is Convection?
What Is: Vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere, especially by uphill drafts and downhill drafts in an unstable atmosphere.
Who was this guy named Coriolis?
What Is: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (born May 21, 1792, Paris—died September 19, 1843, Paris) was a French engineer and mathematician who first described the Coriolis force, an effect of motion on a rotating body, of paramount importance to meteorology, ballistics, and oceanography.