Exam 4: Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation

Sublimation involves the ______________ of latent heat and a change of state from the ______________ phase to the gaseous phase.

Evaporation involves the ______________ of latent heat and a change of state from the ______________ phase to the gaseous phase

Oceans, lakes, and rivers return water to the atmosphere through:

One of the reasons why it is dry on the lee (leeward)side of the Sierra Nevadas of California is that?

There is 13 percent more water leaving the oceans than precipitating back into it, and 13 percent more water falling on land than evaporating off it.

The dew point is the temperature at which liquid water becomes water vapor.

In general, subsidence stabilizes the air.

Puffy cumuliform clouds found at an altitude of 3-6 km. are known as

Use adiabatic process and associated lapse rates to describe precipitation patterns associated with orographic precipitation.

The ________expresses the mass of water vapor existing in a given mass (g/kg)of air.

The term cumuliform indicates

Examples of low level clouds would be _________________ and _____________

A ____________________ is an example of a stratiform cloud that blankets the entire sky at elevations above 6 km.

Freezing involves the ______________ of latent heat and a change is state from the ______________ phase to the solid phase.

Which cloud type is normally associated with hail, tornadoes, and microbursts?

Most of the Earth's surface is oceanic.

Altocumulus and altostratus occur between 10,000 and 20,000 ft.

Geographic conditions favoring the formation of orographic precipitation are a windward slope of a mountain barrier and a downwind leeward slope.

If a parcel of air at sea level with a temperature of 30°C and a dew point of 12°C begins to rise up a mountain slope, at what elevation will clouds first begin to form?

___________________ is when water vapor changes directly from the gaseous phase to the solid phase without a transitional liquid phase.