Clouds

and
Precipitation

Group 1
Abao, Alegrado,
Ardines, Arcilla,
Bacalso, and Balundo
 So what is Clouds?...

• is an aerosol consisting of a
visible mass of minute liquid
droplets, frozen crystals, or
other particles suspended in the
atmosphere of a planetary body
or similar space. Water or
various other chemicals may
compose the droplets and
crystals.
• is made of water drops or ice
crystals floating in the sky
• are collections of water
droplets or ice crystals, or
combination of these two states
of water, suspended in the
atmosphere.
 How Do Clouds Form?

• The sky can be full of water. But most of the time you can't see
the water. The drops of water are too small to see. They have
turned into a gas called water vapor. As the water vapor goes
higher in the sky, the air gets cooler. The cooler air causes the
water droplets to start to stick to things like bits of dust, ice or
sea salt.
What Are Some Types of
Clouds?
Clouds get their names in
two ways. One way is by where they
are found in the sky. Some clouds are
high up in the sky. Low clouds form
closer to Earth's surface. In fact, low
clouds can even touch the ground.
These clouds are called fog. Middle
clouds are found between low and
high clouds.
Another way clouds are
named is by their shape. Cirrus clouds
are high clouds. They look like
feathers. Cumulus clouds are middle
clouds. These clouds look like giant
cotton balls in the sky. Stratus clouds
are low clouds. They cover the sky
like bed sheets.
FORMATION OF CLOUDS

The stability of the atmosphere plays an important part in the formation

and development of clouds and their characteristic, since it controls the
method of ascent of an air parcel.
Convection
a convection current, developing at the surface, will ascend cooling
adiabatically, and continue to do so as long as it is warmer than the
environment.
Orographic
air moving across the surface of the earth eill be forced to ascend over
a hill or mountain lying in its path, thus cools adiabatically. The clouds
which may form are called orographic and are associated with a stable
atmosphere, where air has to be forced to ascend.
Turbulence
by redistributing the water vapour uniformly and affecting the E.L.R.
(Environmental Lapse Rate)within the turbulent layer, can cause cloud
formation.
 WHAT IS
PRECIPITATION?.....

is any product of
the condensation of atmospheric wat
er vapour that falls under gravity. The
main forms of precipitation
include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, gra
upel and hail.
Ice pellets, prisms or
granular snow also occur. Ussually,
but not always, precipitation is
associated witih a a loud. On
occasions it can be seen leaving the
base of a cloud in vertical or inclined
trails which do not reach the surface,
which are termed fallstreasks or
virga.
DEVELOPMENT