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| middle (2-8km) never used by itself |
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| verticle clouds. Showery precipitation (short) because in unstable atmosphere, lots of lift and convention, going up fast so drops form quickly, few form but big size so falls very fast |
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| (blanket) low clouds (horizontal development. Steady precipitation (long) more stable atmosphere rising gently, drops much smaller (fall shower, longer period of time) |
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| a rain cloud or very dark cloud (darker it is more matter it has, which means a lot of water) |
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| condensation trails created by jets, the exhaust from jets (mositure in exhaust)if there is a lot of mositure in the air contrails will last, but if the air is dry then the contrails will not last |
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| (ring around the moon or sun) created by cirrus clouds with red on inside |
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| (bright whitish disk centered on the moon or sun) created by a thin layer of altostratus or altocumulus clouds with red on the outside and blue on the inside when color is present |
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| cloud in contact with the ground formed by reaching dew point by cooling |
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| When warm and moist air is blown over a cold surface, it becomes chilled and may form a blanket of fog |
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| with elevation change, air moves up and cools, reaching dew point, thus forming fog |
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| cooling by heat loss at night from earth (creating 100% sat) --> fog |
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| water evaporates into the air |
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| water evaporates over a front |
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| warm it up, evaporate water |
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| warm it up (sun). sun energy is absorbed into ground and then radiates from the ground and the fog dispersates from the ground up. air starts desending (gets commpressed and warm)and fog is warm enough it then disperts which is called Adiabatic heating. |
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| more apt to happen in the summer time not winter, formation does not have to do with temperature down at earth, comes out of thunder head clouds. |
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| little chunks of soft ice, wisks up, temperature goes down and freezes harder, then settles back down where air is more saturated, then water collects on it then up draft swips it up and freezes (repeats until it falls to earth) has consentric layers of ice |
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| Prevention of Frost Damage |
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| Heaters (warm ground), smug fires (smokey fires create lot of particles of carbon, absorb heat then release heat thus area around plant warmer), covering (with paper or cloth, keeps evergy in coming off the plant and ground from escaping), sprinkling (1. heat in water 2. latent heat of fusion gets released when ice forms) |
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| earth is radiating heat from the surface on a clear night cooling ground and bottom of atmosphere but warmer air high up if enough warm air can mix --> inversion (windmills, helicopter) |
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