Sentences with phrase «moisture precipitates»

Completing the cycle, moisture precipitates over the land and returns to the ocean in the form of river runoff.

It stays high until the moisture precipitates and then descends over a desert, returning equatorward.

Answer; moisture precipitated out as condensation.

Not exact matches

This moisture - laden air then precipitates as rainfall during a hurricane, dissipating the heat energy from the water.

Holland studied iron silicate compounds which had precipitated from moisture in the soil.

It's possible that the whitish stain is precipitated more by the MoM that I use around the rim of the bottle once it becomes thicker (has lost moisture).

If temperatures are at or below freezing (which is true even during this warmer - than - average winter in Colorado), that moisture will precipitate as snow, not rain.

Secondly, you state that equatorial moisture only reaches the troposhere and precipitates out in that band.

Finally, it would be helpful to have characterized sources of moisture that then precipitate as snowfall, since my understanding (which is undoubtedly in need of correction) was that it was cold dry air mass that are normally kept at bay by the jet stream that creep over land mass and meet moist air that was carried north from lower latitudes.

The increased orographic lifting may precipitate more of the global moisture, reducing global water vapor.

2) The air in such towers is dryer than the surrounding air because the rapidly rising air also cools rapidly and that cooling causes the moisture in the air to precipitate as rain.

Being unforested, oceanic moisture can not penetrate to the Australian continent irrespective of how much moisture there is over the ocean; during the wet season it precipitates in the coastal zones causing floods.

In winter the forest sleeps, so the ocean wins, and all moisture remains over the ocean and precipitates there.