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Science Weather
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Latent Heat | Heat required for evaporation |
| Dew Point | The atmospheric temp that is cold enough to make dew form |
| Relative Humidity | amount of water in the air as a percentage |
| Condensation Nuclei | particles in the sky that help clouds form |
| Adiabatic Cooling | the process of reducing heat through a change in air pressure caused by volume expansion |
| Advective Cooling | The transfer of a property of the atmosphere |
| Coalescence | when two or more droplets form together to create a bigger one |
| Super Cooling | cool a liquid below its freezing point without making it crystallize |
| Cloud seeding | Feeding a cloud more particles to make it storm sooner |