As water vapor condenses to form clouds and rain, the conversion releases heat that add buoyancy to the air and further fuels the storm.
As the water vapor condenses it provides energy, liquid water and pressure gradients (wind).
Since liquid water weighs the same
as the water vapor it condensed from, there is no change in the weight of the column of atmosphere above our parcel of air, whence the pressure remains unchanged, although the parcel may change (very slowly) in volume.
Not exact matches
If the surface is very cold (below the freezing point of
water) the
condensed water vapor freezes, this is what we see
as frost.
2 If there's more
water vapor than places for it to
condense, already - formed ice crystals can also serve
as seeds.
The temperature difference,
as well
as the high humidity inside the chamber, causes the
vapor to
condense as liquid
water, which drips into a collector.
In December 2015, the Dawn team reported a haze of
water vapor above the crater — a cloud that grew
as temperatures rose during the day, and disappeared at night
as temperatures dropped and the
water vapor condensed into frost.
As the inner regions of the protoplanetary disk cooled below 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, they reasoned, those elements condensed out of the hot vapor to form delicate mineral crystals, just as the intricate branches of a snowflake condense from water vapo
As the inner regions of the protoplanetary disk cooled below 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, they reasoned, those elements
condensed out of the hot
vapor to form delicate mineral crystals, just
as the intricate branches of a snowflake condense from water vapo
as the intricate branches of a snowflake
condense from
water vapor.
Instead, NASA will rely on a
water - recovery system that recycles not only
condensed water vapor and trace contaminants from crew perspiration and respiration but urine
as well.
Scientists believe that heat brings up
water vapor from the inside of the planet, which
condenses as it rises and produces heat.
Airborne particles in the form of naturally occurring dusts and human - produced aerosols can serve
as ice nuclei, sites around which
water vapor condenses into clouds.
It appears that the condensation has a tendency to remove the
water vapor from the air
as it
condenses on Condensation Nuclei, the result is the air above the condensation layer is normally very dry.
As water start to
condense then there is radiant interaction, mainly
water vapor.
In order to «squeeze out» all of that
water vapor as precipitation, there has to be some atmospheric mechanism to cause air to rise,
water to
condense, and precipitation to subsequently fall.
A thunderstorm event might be best depicted
as a run - away rising column of air that is becoming progressively warmer than the surrounding air
as condensing water vapor yields its heat of vaporization until almost all
water vapor has
condensed out and then cooling at a rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters, it eventually reaches a warmer layer of air and spreads out like smoke over a ceiling.
Roughly 97 % of the planet's
water is in its oceans, and the oceans are the source of the vast majority of
water vapor that
condenses in the atmosphere and falls
as rain or snow on the continents.
At that level, the
water vapor condenses into clouds
as shown in Figure 3».
If we were to increase the level of
water vapor in the atmosphere and leave everything else unchanged, the
water vapor would fairly quickly
condense out
as rain, snow, frost or dew and there would be no lasting effect on global temperatures Carbon dioxide comes second after
water vapor and its concentration in the atmosphere is heavily affected by burning of fossil fuels.
I looked at it
as potential and it does tend to provide the right range of wind velocity though when
water vapor actually decides to
condense and precipitate is a bit iffy.
That
water vapor condenses in some places
as air rises and releases heat
as it makes clouds and rain.
What's to stop a volume warming up
as a result of some of its
water vapor condensing?
Fortunately,
as depicted in Figure 2 (orange «thermal down surface» arrow), some of this energy does stay in the atmosphere, where it is sent back toward Earth by clouds, released by clouds
as they
condense to form rain or snow, or absorbed by atmospheric gases composed of three or more atoms, such
as water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4).
However,
as the
water vapor rises the lapse rate means that the volume of air cools and eventually the
water vapor condenses into
water droplets and then into ice latent heat is given off to the surrounding air at each of these phase changes, with two effects.
Those airborne particles help form clouds by acting
as «nuclei» for
water vapor to
condense around.
Air masses are more mobile than the ocean
waters, and when they move to a cooler region, the
water vapor condenses as rain or snow, leaving the heat energy in the atmossphere.
The
water vapor condensing out releases latent heat, which means that the air parcel no longer cools
as quickly
as if it were not saturated.
what happens to the black.body spectrum of
water vapor as it
condenses, joel and ira and other radiation freaks?
Is it just a coincidence that the
water vapor condenses to form clouds and
as the clouds form they reflect sunlight?
In recent years, the idea of pulling
water vapor from the air and
condensing it into drinking
water is getting a whole lot more attention, and not just in off - grid areas and in the developing world, but also right here in suburbia and urban areas
as well.