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humidity

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latent heat   Latent heat is released or absorbed when water changes from one state to another.  
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sublimation   when a solid turns directly into a gas.  
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dew point   When air reaches the dew point, the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation. Below the dew point, net condensation or deposition causes dew or frost to form.  
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Absolute humidity   Absolute humidity is the mass of water vapor contained in a given volume of air.  
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relative humidity   Relative humidity is a ratio of the actual amount of water vapor in the air to the amount of water vapor needed to reach saturation.  
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cloud   Clouds form when water vapor cools and condenses on condensation nuclei.  
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condensation nucleus   Clouds form when water vapor cools and condenses on condensation nuclei.  
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adiabatic cooling   Water vapor can cool and condense by adiabatic cooling, by the mixing of two bodies of moist air that have different temperatures  
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advective cooling   by the lifting of air, and by advective cooling  
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stratus cloud   gray cloud that has a flat, uniform base and that commonly forms at very low altitudes  
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cumulus clouds   low-level, billowy cloud that commonly has a top that resembles cotton balls and a dark bottom  
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cirrus cloud   feathery cloud that is composed of ice crystals and that has the highest altitude of any cloud in the sky  
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fog   Fog forms when air near Earth’s surface is chilled below the dew point  
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