Forms of Condensation & Precipitation

                    Chapter 5

• cloud formation
  • condensation aloft
  • growth of cloud droplets
• cloud classification (1 & 2)
  • high clouds
    • cirrus
    • cirrocumulus
    • cirrostratus
  • middle clouds
    • altocumulus
    • altostratus
  • low clouds
    • stratus
    • stratocumulus
    • nimbostratus
    • cloud with an attitude
  • clouds of vertical development
    • cumulus
  • cloud varieties
    • lenticular (diagram, image)
  • cloud insurance
• types of fog
  • fogs formed by cooling
    • radiation fog (diagram, image)
    • advection fog (diagram)
    • precipitation fog (diagram)
    • upslope or orographic fog (diagram, image)
  • fog map
• dew (images 1 2 3 4)
• frost (images 1 2 3 4)
  • ways to prevent frost
• how precipitation forms
• cloud drop sizes
  • precipitation from cold clouds: The Bergeron process
    • fall velocity of water droplets
  • precipitation from warm clouds: The Collision-Coalescence Process
• forms of precipitation
  • rain
  • snow formation, snow crystals
  • sleet, sleet formation
  • glaze
  • hail