Precipitation Flashcards
What happens to an engine when the engine engulfs too much water?
Engine flame out.
What is the average diameter of a raindrop?
2000 um
What are the two processes of small droplets growing to precipitation?
Ice crystal process - coalescence process
What is the Bergeron - findeisen ?
Bloody freezing ! Ice crystal process.
How to water droplets grow in size in the coalescence theory?
Collisions.
Whats a hydrometor?
Moving water particles.
Whats a suspended particle example?
Cloud - fog - mist
Whats a falling particle example?
Drizzle - rain - snow - hail
What is the diameter of drizzle?
0.5mm
What type of cloud does drizzle fall from?
Stratus.
What may happen to supercooled rain when it imapcts a surface?
Freezes.
What are snow grains?
Small white particles of ice.
Whats another word for snow pellets is blank hail.
Soft hail
What do snow pellets fall from?
Cumulus or cb
What letters are used for hail?
GR