ATMS 120 Quiz: WCP 7
4 May 2016
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Clouds form in areas of rising, saturated air that cools as it ascends and condenses water vapor into liquid water droplets. Let"s see how much liquid water was in. Cloud dimensions: assume the clouds uniformly fill a cylinder that is as wide as the black circle on the image and. 10 km tall. (hint: you will have to estimate the width of the circle when doing your calculation. ) There are 7. 5 10-7 grams of water in every cubic centimeter of the cloud (g cm-3) There are 3785 grams of water in every gallon. Helpful hints: use google to double-check all your unit conversions. Example: type in convert 1 km^3 to m^3 and see what you get: when finding the depth of the water, make use of this equation: 3. 14*400 km^2*10 km = 5024000 km^3 (total volume of water in the clouds m3) = (area under clouds m2) * (depth of water m)
