Exam 2 Review – Main Topics

Atmospheric moisture (Chapter 5) - Variables that describe atmospheric moisture - Saturated vs. unsaturated air

- Dry adiabatic, moist adiabatic lapse rates

- Nucleation (cloud formation) - Fog and fog types - Measuring moisture content

Exam 2 Review – Main Topics

Atmospheric stability, clouds (Chapter 6) - Γd, Γm, Γe and stability, lifting mechanisms - How air cools or warms when rising or

descending (both saturated and unsaturated) - How dew point changes with rising or

descending air - Cloud types

Exam 2 Review – Main Topics

Precipitation Processes (Chapter 7) - Precipitation in warm and

cold/cool clouds - Other precipitation types (hail,

sleet, frz rain) - Measuring precipitation - Global/U.S. Precipitation

distribution