GEOG 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: List Of Cloud Types, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Soot
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Cloud- aggregation of liquid water and suspended in air with enough volume and concentration to be visible. How do clouds form: cooling by lifting and held aloft by buoyancy, saturated air, water droplets condense around nuclei. Condensation requires cloud condensation nuclei: dust, soot, ash, sea salts, and microbes. Microbiome of upper troposphere- species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications. Cirriform- feathery, wispy: altitude- how how in the troposphere, rainmaker? if yes, add nimbus. Air masses take on characteristics of land or body of water they"re over (what they develop over) dry moist mc- maritime continental mt- maritime tropical cp (arctic)- continental polar mp- maritime polar warm cold.
