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Explain why it is difficult to include water vapor in a graph that shows the percentages of various gases in the atmosphere?
The amount of water vapor in the air varies considerably depending on climate and weather. In a desert water vapor may account for a tiny fraction of a percent of the air. In a tropical rainforest during a storm water vapor may account for as much as 4% of the air.
What is the difference between a rain cloud and a normal cloud?
All clouds have the potential to be rain clouds. It just depends on how much water vapor is in them. Once the water vapor in a cloud cools or becomes too heavy, it rains. Clouds with lots of water are generally dark gray as opposed to white clouds with less water.
What are the gases in thermosphere?
Thermosphere contain the same gases as troposphere but in very low concentrations: oxygen, nitrogen argon.
How can you have an atmosphere compromised of 78 percent nitrogen 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent others with relative humidity of 4 percent?
When you see a list of the components of air, they refer to DRY air, because the amount of water vapor varies. If the relative humidity is 100% and the temperature is 104F, water vapor would make up 7% of that air. I doubt the dew point has ever hit 104F, so almost certainly it's never been that high and is usually a good bit less. When temperatures drop well into the double digits below 0, there is only a barely-detectable amount of water vapor. So those component lists floating around describes dry air, or the make-up of the air that isn't water vapor. Those numbers are fairly constant whereas if you tried to include water vapor, you couldn't come up with hard numbers because they are all displaced by any water vapor in proportion to how much of the dry air they make up.
What is the difference between mist and dew?
Mist comprises airborne droplets of water. Dew comprises droplets of water attached to some solid structure (eg a blade of grass or a spider's web). The source of water in both circumstances is water vapour contained in the air which comes out of the air when it cools past its 'dew point'.
How does temperature affect amount of vapor in the air?
The warmer the temperature, the more water vapor in the air. The colder the temperature, the less water vapor in the air.
Colder air holds less moisture than warmer air?
If air is holding as much moisture as it can, colder air holds less than warmer.
How does air pressure affect how much water vapor air can hold?
Warmer air has higher saturation mixing ratios then cold air does. So therefore because of this 100% humidity in cold air is not 100% humidity in warmer air. The warmer the temperature, the more water vapor in the air. The colder the temperature, the less water vapor in the air.
How does water vapor in the air effect the weather?
colder air doesn't collect as much water vapor
Can warm air hold less water vapor than cold air?
no, warm air holds more water vapour than cold air
More oxygen will in colder water than in warmer water?
The warmer the water the less oxygen it holds.
Can hot air or cold air hold more water?
warm air hold more water vapor...unless it doesnt like sandwiches between its toes at 5 o'clock in the after noon
What happens when water vapor comes in contact with cold air?
As the air cools, it can contain less and less water vapor as a gas. So the vapor condenses and creates visible mist called fog, clouds, drizzle, and rain depending on where the water vapor condenses and how much of it condenses. The rain and drizzle forms as the mist groups together and creates the droplets and drops.
Why do molecules rise when they get warmer?
Because the water molecules which are far inside the liquid experience an outward force, and has no maximum potential energy.
Does warmer air contain less water vapor than cooler air?
No, cold air can't hold as much as warm air, that's why clouds are up in the sky.
What will happen to the water vapor in the air if the temperature drops as predicted?
When the temperature drops the less water vapor in the air
What will happened to the water vapor in the air if the temperature drops as predicted?
When the temperature drops the less water vapor in the air
