NATS 101

Lecture 9
NowÉ Vertical Stability
Tennis Basics
Air Molecules Act Similarly
Rising Air Cools-Sinking Air Warms
Relative Humidity
Adiabatic Cooling-Warming
Rising, Saturated Air Cools Less
SVP and Temperature
Slide 10
Moist Flow over a Mountain
Brain Burners
Concept of Stability
ArchimedesÕ Principle
Absolutely Stable: Top Rock
Absolutely Unstable: Middle Rock
Conditionally Unstable: Lower Rock
Environmental Lapse Rate (ELR)
Summary: Key Concepts I
Summary: Key Concepts II
NATS 101

Precipitation Processes
Supplemental References for Precipitation processes
Cloud Droplets to Raindrops
Terminal Fall Speeds              (upward suspension velocity)
Collision-Coalescence
Warm Cloud Precipitation
Mixed Water-Ice Clouds
SVP over Liquid and Ice
SVP near Droplets and Ice
Ice Crystal Process
Accretion-Aggregation Process
Summary: Key Concepts
Examples of Precipitation Types
Temp Profiles for Precipitation
Summary: Key Concepts
Assignment
Assignment for Next Lecture