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    Group Discuss : Meteorology

    Professor : Mrs. Phoeurn Chan Arun

    Student: ID
    Dorn Da e20150152
    Dy Veng Hort e20160127
    E Nary e2016128
    Hab Sopheak e2016138
    Harn Norak e2010146
    There are four main types of clouds form

    1. Surface heating and free convection


    2. Lifting of air over topography
    3. Widespread air lifting due to surface convection
    4. Lifting along weather fronts
    Surface heating and free convection
    This can happen either by rising air cooling or
    by the surrounding air warming.

    In the first case, the rising air in incorporates


    relatively cool and dry air into the cloud. How
    does this happen ? First, clouds are
    surrounding by large areas of descending air
    that has been displaced by the rising air in
    the clouds. The sinking air is dry and cool. In
    clouds edges, there is a lot of mixing and churing
    going on, and the sinking air can be get mixed in to
    cloud. This process is called entrainment.
    In the second case, the surrounding,
    air can warm up if the rising air
    encounters a stable layer, where the
    temperature in the atmosphere
    . begins to increase with height.
    Lifting of air over topography
    • When the air sinks on the leeward
    side of mountain ranges , it is usually
    much drier and warmer than it was ti
    begin with.
    • Despite being drier, lenticular clouds
    can form on the leeward side of the
    mountain. These form because the air
    moving over the mountains has been
    disturbed, and can continued to flow in
    a wave-like pattern for hundreds of
    kilometers downwind of the mountains.
    Each time air rises in the waves, water
    vapor condense and a cloud forms.
    These Clouds are sometimes mistaken
    for flying saucers.
    Widespread air lifting due to surface convection

    Why does air flow from high to low


    pressure?
    Let's say you have two rooms separated
    by an airtight door. One room has a high
    air pressure, and the other room has low
    air pressure. In other words, the first room
    has more air molecules than the second
    room. If you open the door, molecules
    will tend to move from the high to low
    pressure. The same is true in the
    atmosphere - air moves from high to low
    pressure.
    Lifting along weather fronts
    • Warm and cold fronts can also cause air to
    rise. Because cold air is more dense than
    warm air, when two air masses of
    contrasting temperatures meet, the cold air
    ends up below the warm air.

    • Along a warm front, warm air gently rises


    above colder air. The clouds that form are
    usually cirrus, cirrostratus,altostratus,
    or nimbostratus, and they can extend for
    hundreds to thousands of square kilometers.
    Cold fronts have a more severe boundary
    between the warm and cold air. As cold air
    'digs in' to an area of warm air, the warm air
    rises along the front and produces
    cumuliform clouds such
    as cumulus and cumulonimbus.
    CONVECTION AND CLOUD
    (a). Cumulus Humilis
    • In this cause the cumulus humilis is a
    small convective cloud, which forms
    just after a rising thermal reaches the
    condensation level. Humilis cloud
    always dissaate a few minutes after
    they form and not showing much
    growth .
    • Cumulus humilis created when the
    environmental lapse rate decrease ,
    cool air flows over a body of
    relatively warm water,the lowest
    layer of the atmosphere become
    warm and moist.
    (b). Cumulus Congestus

    • Cumulus congestus clouds , aslo


    called towering cumulus are in the
    last stage of development before
    coming cumulonimbus clouds.
    The cumulus congestus was
    inducing instability convection
    begins and cumulus clouds form.
    Moreover conditionally unstable
    about midwaythrough
    troposphere.
    (c) . Cumulonimbus
    • The clouds grows until it reaches
    a stable layer in the atmosphere,
    at which point it spreads
    outward creating an anvil. If air
    moves over progressively
    warmer water ( open ocean ),
    more active convection occurs
    and a cumulus cloud can builds
    into cumulonimbus.

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