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Class #25: Friday, March 6
Clouds, fronts, precipitation processes, upper-level waves, and the extratropical cyclone
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Ice crystal formation
• The ice crystal process begins with the formation of ice crystals
• At temperatures below -40ºC, ice crystals can form spontaneously (deposition)
• At higher temperatures, small particles called ice nuclei form surfaces for water vapor to freeze.
• There are lots less ice nuclei than CCN
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Mixed clouds have water droplets and ice crystals
• At temperatures just below freezing, few substances can act as ice nuclei
• At lower temperatures (higher in the cloud) more substances can act as ice nuclei
• Ice nuclei have molecular structures similar to the ice crystal
• Condensation of supercooled water occurs for T<0º without an ice nucleus
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Ice crystals can also act as ice nuclei
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Ice crystal types depend on temperature
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The ice crystal process in a cloud of mixed ice and liquid
• The ice crystal process takes place when a few ice crystals are present with supercooled liquid cloud droplets
• The saturation vapor pressure is lower for ice than for water
• Water vapor diffuses to deposit on the supersaturated crystals and evaporate from the subsaturated drops.
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Saturation vapor pressure favors growth of ice crystals
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Saturation vapor pressure over ice < liquid water
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A few ice crystals grow at the expense of many droplets
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Aggregation: the process of collision and collection of ice
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Overview of the precipitation-formation process
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Different precipitation types: they depend on the sounding
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Even in summer clouds have snow and ice
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Snowfall with subfreezing temperatures below cloud base
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A shallow sub-freezing layer at the ground and freezing rain
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Sleet (ice pellets) with a deeper surface-based inversion
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Hours of freezing rain per year on average varies greatly
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Mean snowfall amounts over the continental U.S.
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