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Key Weather Terms
Weather
Term | Definition |
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Latent Heat | The heat required to convert a solid into a liquid or vapor. |
Dew point | The temperature in the atmosphere that causes droplets of condensation to form. |
Relative Humidity | The amount of water vapor in the air as a percentage. |
Condensation nuclei | Small particles that water vapor condenses on. |
Adiabiactic cooling | Process that reduces heat through a change of air pressure. |
Advective cooling | Temperature transfer in the atmosphere due to the movement of a horizontal air mass. |
Coalescence | When different elements join together and become unified. |
Supercooling | Cooling below an objects freezing point. |
Cloud seeding | A way of changing the amount of precipitation that falls from clouds. |