GEO 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cool Air, Puffy Amiyumi, Dew Point
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Florida: mostly continental or maritime tropical, sometimes continental polar air. 3. 6 degrees for every 1000 feet you raise in florida. Gas rises gets cooler, wants to turn back to liquid, when it is lower it gets hot and it wants to turn back into a gas. Nimbus- whenever you add nimbus to the name, it is a rain cloud (about to collapse on itself) Flat bottom most usually means that it is going to collapse/rain. Fog: cloud layer at or close to earth"s surface. Radiation fog: air temperature falls below to dwe point. Advection fog: warm, moist air layer moves over a cold surface. Forms over oceans when warm air moves on top of ocean. When air masses are forced to raise it is going to rain. Orographic: air that is forced to raise due to mountains. If we have an air mass that is pushing to the east and it clashes into a mountain.
