Week 6: Atmospheric Humidity
Lecture PDF
Key concepts/questions
New Terms
Reading: Chapter 6 of Moran
Links:
Lecture PDF
Key concepts/questions
- What are a few ways to reach saturation in the atmosphere?
- What time of the day is relative humidity typically highest?
- How do you determine whether the atmosphere is stable, unstable or conditionally stable?
- Are convective clouds (e.g., cumulus) more likely to form over snow-covered ground or bare ground?
New Terms
- Specific Humidity, Dewpoint Temperature, Relative Humidity
- Absolute Stability, Absolute Instability and Conditional Stability
- Orographic Lifting, Frontal Lifting, Convective Lifting and Convergent Lifting
- Precipitable Water
Reading: Chapter 6 of Moran
Links:
Chapter 6-7
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