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Chapter 7. Hydrology & Hydrologic Cycle Hydrologic Processes Precipitation, soil moisture, condensation, evaporation.. Air Saturation, Dew Point Humidity Relative, absolute, and specific. Evaporation, Transpiration, and Evapotranspiration
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Chapter 7 • Hydrology & Hydrologic Cycle • Hydrologic Processes • Precipitation, soil moisture, condensation, evaporation.. • Air Saturation, Dew Point • Humidity • Relative, absolute, and specific
Evaporation, Transpiration, and Evapotranspiration • Amount of water, temperature, relative humidity, wind • Condensation • Condensation nuclei • Fogs, Clouds, and Dew • Adiabatic cooling and heating • Dry and wet adiabatic lapse rate • Stable and unstable air mass • Types of clouds • Cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus • Precipitation mechanism • Convectional, cyclonic (frontal), and orographic • Latitudinal precipitation distribution