Chapter 10-Atmospheric Water Flashcards
Vaporization
Water changing from liquid to a gas by boiling.
Evaporation
When water changes from liquid to a gas without boiling.
Condensation
The change from gas to liquid.
Boil
The rapid vaporization of a liquid whose temperature is at boiling point.
Freeze
Liquid to solid
Melt
Solid to liquid
Sublimation
A change of state directly from a solid to the gaseous state or from the gaseous to the solid-state without passing through a liquid state.
Dewpoint
The temperature at which the relative humidity is 100%.
Cloud
A mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.
Adiabatic Clouds
A process or object that does not exchange energy with its surroundings.
Condensation Nucei
Are microscopic particles of material, such as salt or smoke, around which the tiny water droplets form.
Freezing Nulei
Small particles of clay or dust shaped like ice crystals.
Supercooled water
When cloud droplets remain liquid even down to temperatures of -40°F
Stratus
Then layers and sheets
Cumulus
Piles or billows
Cirrus
Wispy curls
Drizzle
Small droplets of rain falling slowly.
Mares tail
Vail – like sheets of clouds
Mackerel sky
Cirro and altocumulus clouds that form in patterns that resembled the striped markings on the sides of a mackerel
Dew
Water that condenses on a cool surface when air in contact with the surface cools to below its dewpoint.
Frost
The ice crystals that sublimate on a cold surface when the film of air in contact with the surface is cold to dew point below freezing.
Coalesce
The building of raindrops by the joining of many smaller drops.
