1. By:Mason Haas

2. Adiabatic temperature changes
and expansion and cooling
 Air that changes with out heating or cooling.
 Dry adiabatic is the rate of cooling or heating in non
saturated air
 Wet adiabatic rate is the cooling
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/not
es/chapter6/graphics/adiab_warming.gif

3. Orographic lifting
 Or graphic lifting of air is happens in elevated
terrains like mountain
 It acts as a boundary and the air flows up ward
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/
ge301/press&siever12.3.png

4. Frontal Wedging
 Front is a boundary between were warm and cold air
meat
 Occurs when cold dence air acts a blanket over the
warmer air
http://www.geography.hu
nter.cuny.edu/~tbw/wc.n
otes/4.moisture.atm.stabi
lity/frontal.wedging.jpg

5. Localized convection
 Occurs when the earths surface heats makes a warm
pocket of air warmer then the rest
 It lowers the air pockets density
http://acd.ucar.edu/~randel/GPS4.gif

6. stability
 Air that’s stable usually stays in the same spot
 Air that’s unstable usually rises
 The most stable air conditions are temperature
inversions they are when the temperature of the air
goes up with height
http://www.revisionworld.co.uk/files/salr_4
9.gif

7. Condensation
 Condensation can only occur if the air is saturated
 The types of condensation are dew, fog, and clouds
 Condensation
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_
with_logo/235126/235126,1247291688,7/stock
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condensation-inside-a-blue-bottle-
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8. Cloud types
 Clouds are categorized by there height and there
form
 One type of clouds are cirrus there thin and fluffy
 Cumulus are the other type of clouds they are
individual
 And the last type of clouds are status clouds have
layers and cover most of the sky
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/images/clou
dchart.gif

9. High Clouds
 Three types of high clouds are
cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus
 Cirrocumulus is fluffy
 Cirrostratus are thin layers
 Cirrus clouds cover the sky
http://www.bigbranch.net/195.jpg

10. Middle clouds
 Middle clouds are any were form 2000 to 6000 meters
 They are made up of bigger partials then all the other
clouds
 They are a grayish cover
http://www.bigbranch.net/168.jpg

11. Low Clouds
 There are three types of low clouds
stratus, stratocumulus, and nimbostratus
 Stratus clouds are fog like clouds that cover the sky
most of the time
 Stratocumulus clouds are ling roles
 Nimbostratus clouds are rain clouds
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_
with_logo/159841/159841,1285355433,12/stock
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atlantic-ocean-and-breaking-waves-
61627681.jpg

12. Cloud of Vertical development
 They are associated with unstable air
 They are around in fair wheather
 They usually end up making a rain cloud
http://www.free-online-private-pilot-
ground-school.com/images/cloud-types.gif

13. Fog
 There are two different reasons for fog cooling and
evaporation
 Cooling fog occurs when moist air from the pacific
moves over the California current then its pushed on
by prevailing winds
 Fog caused by evaporation happens when cool moves
over water if the air gets moist enough fog happens

14. Cold Cloud Precipitation (Bergeron
process)
 It’s a theory that relates to the formation of
precipitation to super cooled clouds, freezing
nuclei, and level difference of liquid water and ice.
 water in a liquid state under 0 is said to be super cold
 If super cold water touches an object it will freeze

15. Warm cloud
 When air is saturated fully it’s the same as ice that’s
fully saturated
 The collision coalescence process is a theory of how
raindrops form in warm cloud making cloud droplets
collide to for a rain drop

16. Rain and snow
 The types of precipitation are rain and snow
 Rain is water falling from clouds when the
temperatures is above 4 at the service
 Snow happens when low temperatures and low
moisture and is made up of six sided crystals

17. Sleet, Glaze and Hail
 Sleet is the fall of clear ice a layer of air has to over line
the ground for it to occur
 Glaze is freezing rain it happens when becomes super
cold
 Hail begins as little ice balls that get bigger when super
cold water droplet stick to it as it falls to the surface