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| Visible aggregates of minute droplets of water or tiny crystals of ice |
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| Clouds are based on what? |
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| Three types of form clouds are? |
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| Cirrus, Cumulus, and Stratus |
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| Four height differences of clouds? |
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| High, Middle, Low, and Clouds of Vertical Development |
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| Three types of HIGH clouds are? |
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| Cirrus, Cirrostratus, and Cirrocumulus |
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| Detached clouds composed of white, delicate icy filaments |
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| Transparent, whitest cloud veil of fibrous or sometimes smooth appearance that may cover much or all of the sky |
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| Appear as white patches composed of very small cells or ripples. |
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| Two types of MIDDLE clouds are? |
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| Altocumulus and Altostratus |
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| Large patches composed of rounded masses or rolls that may or may not merge |
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| A formless layer of grayish clouds covering most of the sky. Infrequent precipitation. |
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| Three types of LOW clouds are? |
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| Stratus, Stratocumulus, and Nimbostratus |
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| A uniform layer that frequently covers much of the sky |
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| When stratus clouds develop a scalloped bottom that appears as long parallel rolls or broken globular patches |
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| Forms under stable conditions. Light to moderate precipitation for long durations |
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| Clouds of vertical development are closely related to what? |
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| Two types of VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT clouds are? |
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| Individual masses that develop into vertical domes or towers. Rarely produce much precipitation. |
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| Dark, dense, billowy clouds of considerable extent in the form of huge towers. Heavy precipitation (lightning and thunder) with occasional hail. |
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| These FOUR cloud types are associated with different types of cloud uplift |
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| Orographic, frontal, convergent, and convective |
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| Altostratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, and stratus |
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| FOUR types of Warm Front Clouds? |
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| Cirrostratus, Altostratus, Nimbostratus, and Stratus |
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| FOUR types of Cold Front Clouds? |
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| Cumulus, Cirrostratus, Sumulonimbus, and Altocumulus |
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| THREE types of Convergence (conditional instability) clouds |
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| Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, and Cirroculus |
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| FOUR types of Convection clouds |
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| Cumulus, Cumulonibus, Cirrus, and Cirrocumulus |
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| Intentional Weather Modification |
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| Deliberate human intervention to influence atmospheric process that constitute the weather |
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| Dry Ice and Silver Iodide |
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| Particles of solid carbon dioxide. Mixing of the air, and warming of the air. |
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| Introducing silver iodide crystals. Crystals act as condensation nuclei, increasing competition for available supercooled water droplets. |
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| Plant crops away from valley bottoms, mixing the air, spraying of crops, protective coverings, and heaters. |
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| Higher temperatures, increased cloud amount, and increased precipitation within and downwind of urban areas. |
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| Liquid water or ice that falls to the earth's surface |
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| Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
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| Microscopic particles that serve as surfaces on which water vapor condenses |
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| Micro-scale physical processes |
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| Clouds are very tiny and fall at slow speeds. |
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| Collision and Coalescence |
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| Process of raindrop formation in warm clouds (above 0 degrees C) in which large cloud droplets collide and join together with smaller droplets to form a raindrop. (Warm Rain) |
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| Bergeron-Findeisen process |
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| Process of precipitation formation in which ice crystals grow in preference to supercooled water droplets in a mixed cloud. (Cold Rain) |
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| Major Precipitation Types (SIX) |
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| Rain, Mist and Drizzle, Snow, Sleet, Freezing Rain, and Ice Pellets |
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| Hard, rounded pellets or irregular lumps of ice. |
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| Convectional Precipitation |
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| FOUR Rainfall Precipitation measurements |
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| Rain gauge, Standard rain gauge, Tipping-bucket gauge, and Weighing gauge. |
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| TWO Snow Precipitation measurements |
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| Depth and Water Equivalent |
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