Precipitation
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PrecipitationObjectives:1. To understand how precipitation is formed.2. To describe three types of rain – frontal,
orographic and convectional.
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What are the six types of precipitation?
• Rain• Drizzle• Snow• Sleet• Hail• Dew
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• Condensation produces minute water droplets, less than 0.5mm in diameter (or ice crystals if temperature is below freezing).
• They are so small they are kept buoyant by the rising air that creates them.
• So, although condensation produces clouds, clouds do not always mean precipitation.
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But…
• These water droplets (or ice crystals) become large enough to overcome the lifting mechanism and fall to the floor.
• There are two theories…
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1. Bergeron-Findeisen Mechanism
• Through adiabatic cooling of air as it rises the upper parts of clouds are below freezing point.
• Even at the equator upper cloud may be as cold as -65°C.
• Freezing nuclei (salt and fine soil particles) attract super-cooled water droplets and increase in mass.
• At critical mass they fall towards the surface, either melting or remaining frozen.
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2. Collision & Coalescence Process
• Water droplets are constantly moving within a cloud.
• They collide, fuse and increase in mass until they reach critical mass and fall.
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Marketplace• Design a poster to teach others about one type
of rainfall:1. Frontal2. Orographic3. Convectional
• Sources of information:– Essential AS Geography p200-201– Advanced Geography p158– Waugh p219-220– Geog.2 p27
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Fog
Objectives:1.To name two types
of fog.2.To explain how these
types of fog are formed.
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Advection FogHaar fog off East coast
Chinese tourist spot hidden in early morning fog
Advection fog near a river – horizontal movement of air over colder surface
Salt provides an ideal hygroscopic nuclei to help form this haar fog off California
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco – 105 foggy days a year
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Radiation Fog
Thick fog makes travelling very difficult & dangerous
Pollution gets trapped under a temperature inversion producing the orange smog over LA
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Summary