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Exam 2 Review – Main Topics. Atmospheric moisture (Chapter 5) - Variables that describe atmospheric moisture - Saturated vs. unsaturated air - Dry adiabatic, moist adiabatic lapse rates - Nucleation (cloud formation) - Fog and fog types - Measuring moisture content.
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Exam 2 Review – Main Topics • Atmospheric moisture (Chapter 5) - Variables that describe atmospheric moisture - Saturated vs. unsaturated air - Dry adiabatic, moist adiabatic lapse rates - Nucleation (cloud formation) - Fog and fog types - Measuring moisture content
Exam 2 Review – Main Topics • Atmospheric stability, clouds (Chapter 6) - Γd, Γm, Γe and stability, lifting mechanisms - How air cools or warms when rising or descending (both saturated and unsaturated) - How dew point changes with rising or descending air - Cloud types
Exam 2 Review – Main Topics • Precipitation Processes (Chapter 7) - Precipitation in warm and cold/cool clouds - Other precipitation types (hail, sleet, frz rain) - Measuring precipitation - Global/U.S. Precipitation distribution