PPT-Precipitation

and Sky Conditions S4E3 Students will differentiate between the states of water and how they relate to the water cycle and weather e Investigate different forms of precipitation and sky conditions rain snow sleet hail clouds and fog. Cloud Naming. Prefix indicates height. Cirro. .  high, 5-13 km. Alto  middle, 2-5 km. (none)  low, 0-2 km. Name for appearance. Cirrus .  wispy strands. Stratus  layered, uniform. Cumulus puffy with vertical structure. "Rain Drops Keep Falling on my Head" B.J. Thompson (1969). INTRODUCTION. How much rain do you get in your area?. How about snow?. This amount varies around the world. . For example, people living in Spokane, Washington get much more rain than those in Phoenix, Arizona.. Precipitation Processing System (PPS. ). GPM Mission Gridded Text Products . Provide Surface Precipitation Retrievals. Erich Franz . Stocker. , O. Kelley, C. . Kummerow. , G. . . Huffman. , . W. Olson, J. Kwiatkowski . What is precipitation?. Water that falls from the sky, it can be in different forms.. Hail, sleet, snow, rain.. Rain. As warm air rises into the atmosphere it cools. The air creates water vapor which condenses and forms into clouds. Once the clouds are big enough and are holding enough water it begins to rain.. . Photograph: Tony Clarke, VOCALS . REx. flight RF07. Robert Wood. University of Washington. Dave Leon and Jeff Snider, University of Wyoming. Radiative. impact of cloud droplet concentration variations. Caitlin Gorden, Jamie Jefferson, James Nooyen Jr.. University of Wisconsin-Platteville. The Christmas Bird Count started on Christmas day in 1900 to prevent widespread shooting of . birds, and promote . in Hainan Island. Lei Zhu. Paul . Markowski. , . Zhiyong. . Meng. and . Fuqing. Zhang. Research purpose. T. ry to understand the climatology . of . diurnal. . precipitation cycle in Hainan Island. Water vapor, droplets of water suspended in the air, builds up in the Earth's atmosphere. . Water vapor in the atmosphere is visible as clouds and fog. . Water vapor collects with other materials, such as dust, in clouds. Precipitation condenses, or forms, around these tiny pieces of material, called cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).. Crown King. May Average: 0.30”. June Average: 0.26”. July Average: 3.44”. August. . Average: . 3.34”. Crown King 2016 . (. 86. % . of . average. ). May: 1.20”. June: 0.36”. July: 1.60”. Water vapor, droplets of water suspended in the air, builds up in the Earth's atmosphere. . Water vapor in the atmosphere is visible as clouds and fog. . Water vapor collects with other materials, such as dust, in clouds. Precipitation condenses, or forms, around these tiny pieces of material, called cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).. Relief. There are three reasons why air is forced upward also forming three types of precipitation.. Relief . Precipitation- caused by winds carrying air up over a mountain barrier.. Convectional Precipitation. CRISTIAN MARTINEZ-VILLALOBOS. 1. and J. DAVID NEELIN. 1. 2017 AGU FALL MEETING, NEW ORLEANS. DeCEMBER. 14, 2017. 1. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA. LARGE ACCUMULATIONS ARE CONTROLLED BY CUTOFF SCALE . Observations. Brian A. Colle. 1. . and Aaron Naeger. 2. 1. School . of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony . Brook, NY. 2. University of Alabama at Huntsville. This work is supported by NASA PMM #. Artificial rain making.. Process of Precipitation:. Precipitation is caused by condensation of water . vapours. of the air mass. . The ascending air mass with sufficient amount of water . vapours. becomes saturated due to adiabatic cooling. Condensation of water .