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Chapter 5 - Atmospheric Moisture
Understanding Weather and ClimateAguado and Burt
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Water
• Water Vapor - water in a gaseous form, not droplets.
• Water can also achieve solid and liquid phases on Earth– Temperature and pressure
• Saturation – The maximum amount of water that can exist in the atmosphere as a vapor.
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Evaporation and Condensation
• Evaporation – Change in phase from liquid to vapor. The process in which molecules break free of the liquid volume.
• Condensation – Change in phase from vapor to liquid. The process whereby molecules collide with the water surface and bond with adjacent molecules.
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Evaporation and Condensation
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Sublimation and Deposition
• Sublimation - Change of phase from a solid into a vapor without passing through the liquid phase.
• Deposition – Change of phase from vapor to solid.
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Humidity
• Humidity – an expression of the amount of water vapor in the air.
• There are several ways to measure humidity:– Vapor Pressure (Pressure)– Absolute Humidity (Density)– Specific Humidity (Mass Ratio)– Mixing Ratio (Mass Ratio)– Relative Humidity (Percentage)– Dew Point Temperature (Temperature)
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Vapor Pressure
• Vapor Pressure – The part of the total atmospheric pressure due to water vapor.
• Dependencies: Temperature • Unit: Pascal (Pa), millibar
(mb), Kilopascal (kPa)
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Saturation Vapor Pressure
• The vapor pressure of the atmosphere when it is saturated.
• Dependencies: Temperature
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Absolute Humidity
• Absolute Humidity – The density of water vapor (mass of water vapor in a volume of air).
• Dependencies: Volume of the air• Not widely used.
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Specific Humidity
• Specific Humidity- The mass of water vapor per unit mass of air.
• Dependencies: Atmospheric pressure• Units: grams per kilogram (g/kg)• Widely used
– q=specific humidity, mv=mass of water vapor, md=mass of dry air
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Mixing Ratio
• Mixing Ratio - The mass of water vapor relative to the mass of the other gases.
• Offers same advantages as specific humidity
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Relative Humidity
• Relative Humidity – The amount of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount possible.
• Dependencies: Temperature• Unit: percentage (%)• Widely used, but not necessarily good
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Relative Humidity
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Relative Humidity
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Dew Point
• Dew Point – The temperature at which saturation would occur.
• Unit: °F, °C, K• Widely used
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Dew Point
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Dew Point Vs. Relative Humidity
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Three Ways to Achieve Saturation
• Adding water vapor to the air• Lowering the temperature to the dew point• Mixing cold air with warm, moist air.
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Mixing of Air Parcels
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Effects of Curvature
• Smaller drops have more curvature.• The evaporation rate from curved surfaces
is higher relative to those which are flat.• Curved water droplets have a higher
saturation vapor pressure.• Supersaturation (relative humidity greater
than 100%) is necessary to maintain highly curved droplets.
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Effects of Curvature
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Effects of Solution
• Fewer water molecules existing at the surface which yield a lower evaporation rate.
• A solution requires less water vapor above the surface to stay in equilibrium.
• Offset the curvature effect allowing for droplets to form with relative humiditiesnear 100%.
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Ice Nuclei
• Saturation occurring from 0 to –4°C forms only supercooled water droplets.
• From –10 to –40° C ice or supercooledwater droplets can form.
• Below –40°C saturation leads to only the formation of ice crystals.
• Ice nuclei – Particles onto which ice crystals can form when the air becomes saturated.
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Cooling Air to the Dew Point
• Heating/cooling can occur in two ways.– Diabatic processes – Energy is removed or
added.– Adiabatic processes – Energy is not added or
removed (energy remains constant).
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Diabatic Processes
• Involves the transfer of energy from higher to lower temperatures.
• Second Law of Thermodynamics – Energy moves from regions of higher to lower temperatures.
• Frequently responsible for fog formation
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Adiabatic Processes
• Energy remains constant (no heat transfer).• First Law of Thermodynamics – if heat is
added there will be some combination of temperature increase and expansion.
• For an adiabatic process:TcpH v Δ⋅+Δ⋅=Δ α
Tcp v Δ⋅+Δ⋅= α0 Tcp v Δ⋅=Δ⋅− α
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Lapse Rates• Dry adiabatic lapse rate (DALR) –Rate at which
rising parcel of unsaturated air cools. (1.0°C/100 m)
• Saturated adiabatic lapse rate (SALR) - Rate at which rising parcel of saturated air cools. (0.5°C/100 m)
• Dew point lapse rate – Rate at which dew point decreases with height. (0.2°C/100 m)
• Environmental lapse rate (ELR) – Vertical change in temperature profile through still air.
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Lapse Rates
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Lapse Rates
• Difference between ELR and DALR/SALR
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Lifting Condensation Level
• LCL: Lifting Condensation Level -level at which saturation is achieved
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Forms of Condensation
• Dew• Frost• Frozen Dew• Fog
– Radiation– Advection– Upslope
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Fogs