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 |