vocabulary
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| latent heat | the heat energy that is absorbed or released by a substance during a phase change
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| sublimination | the process in which a solid changes directly into a gas (the term is sometimes also used for the reverse process)
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| dew point | at constant pressure and water vapor content, the temperature at which the rate of condensation equals the rate of evaporation
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| absoulute humidity | the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air that contains the water vapor; usually expressed as grams of water vapor per cubic meter of air
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| relative humididty | the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount of water vapor needed to reach saturation at a given temperature
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| cloud | a collection of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air, which forms when the air is cooled and condensation occurs
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| condensation nucleus | a solid particle in the atmosphere that provides the surface on which water vapor condenses
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| adiabatic cooling | the process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air mass rises and expands
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| advective cooling | the process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air mass moves over a cold surface
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| stratus cloud | a gray cloud that has a flat, uniform base and that commonly forms at very low altitudes
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| cumulous cloud | a low-level, billowy cloud that commonly has a top that resembles cotton balls and a dark bottom
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| cirrus cloud | a 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 | water vapor that has condensed very near the surface of Earth because air close to the ground has cooled
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